Something tugged at Ronald Reagan on that otherwise slow August weekend in 1982.
“Again at the W.H.,” the president noted in his diary. “More of Saturdays work plus a long letter I have to write to Loyal. I'm afraid for him. His health is failing badly.”
Loyal Davis, Reagan's father-in-law and a pioneering neurosurgeon, was just days away from death.
Something else worried Reagan: The dying man was, by most definitions of the word, an atheist.
“I have never been able to subscribe to the divinity of Jesus Christ nor his virgin birth. I don't believe in his resurrection, or a heaven or hell as places,” Davis once wrote. “If we are remembered and discussed with pleasure and happiness after death, this is our heavenly reward.”
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