Let's not take it for granted in the future. Let's remember what it was like when the hospital was closed, even for a few months. It's sometimes easy to forget that presidents or other heads of state are simply human beings, just as you and me. We often think that such men and women are not subject to the same problems as others. The medical reports this past week on President Reagan following his surgery show us otherwise.
Presidents are subject to cancer and other frailties of life just like other people.
They and their families suffer pain and distress just like all of us from time to time. We join with others in the nation and around the world in praying for the president's early recovery. We also remember Mrs. Reagan and their family especially at this time. In the past several weeks, the Holbrook area, the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert have been given a lot of media attention. It started with the discovery of Gertie and her flight from the Painted Desert to the University of California at Berkeley.