Nancy Reagan saw to the publication of her late husband Ronald's diaries because she felt it was important that people know more about the former president."I just thought that there was so much in this diary that people didn't know about Ronnie, and that they really should know about Ronnie," she told CNN's "Larry King Live" in an interview broadcast Thursday. "And for history's sake, it's so important."
Three years after his death, Reagan's presidential musings, recorded in five handwritten volumes, have been collected in a new book, "The Reagan Diaries," edited by historian Douglas Brinkley.
"He did not write it for history," Nancy Reagan said. "He wrote it for himself. As a matter of fact, he used all the material that was in the diary to write his autobiography. It would remind him of things." (Watch Nancy Reagan explain why the diaries were necessary )
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