C-SPAN uses Rancho del Cielo’s Secret Service Command Post to set up a broadcast from the Western White House.
Media Coverage Opens Ranch to National Audience B y K at e O b e n s h a i n , Vi c e P r e s i d e n t
(Above) The President and First Lady host the press corps at Rancho del Cielo. (Right) Fox News broadcasts live from the Reagan Ranch.
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edia coverage of the Reagan Ranch and the events at the Reagan Ranch Center exploded over the past several years, enabling Young America’s Foundation to exponentially increase our reach and have significant, nationwide impact on public opinion about President Ronald Reagan. Polls gauging the relative popularity of American Presidents steadily increased for President Reagan since the Foundation saved the Ranch in 1998. In February 2011, Gallup conducted a nationwide poll
to determine which President Americans believe to have been the “greatest.” President Reagan won overwhelmingly, coming in five percentage points ahead of Americans’ second choice: Abraham Lincoln. President Reagan also topped the list in 2001, 2005, and 2009 and ranked first or second in eight of the ten “Greatest President” polls conducted by Gallup since 1999. Through print, radio, television, new media, films, books, magazines, and other resources, Young Young America’s Foundation • Libertas
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