Nancy Reagan (1981 – 1989) was consequential in fostering Japanese-American relations when the Japanese ambassador presented her with a young sapling cultivated from one of Helen Taft’s trees. Some varieties of the cherry trees that grew on the banks of the Arakawa River in Tokyo and were sent to the U.S. in 1912 ceased flourishing there. Reagan sent back to Japan descendants of those original trees that now grace Tokyo. The tree she sent was named the “President Reagan.”.
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