it was john hinckley psychiatrist, his doctor, who said ronald reagan contacted me in the 1980's and asked if he could meet with john higley to forgive him. i told him i don't know if that would be good for hinckley. and reagan said, doc, if it isn't good for the patient, i won't do it. if we can do it, i will. so reagan never met with him. louis evans, the pastor at the presbyterian church over here, he talked to ronald reagan about this and reagan told him -- reagan had the sense that, if he didn't forgive his assassin, his would-be assassin, he was going to die. got was going to take his life. reagan felt his survival was contingent upon his forgiveness, that that was something he needed to do. reagan would survive and go on to telling number of people, his son michael, his daughter marine, the reverend louis evans, billy graham, he would tell this to mother teresa, to cardinal cooke in new york, that he believed he was spared by godfrey special purpose. and as edmund morris put it, he believed that this -- reagan wrote this in his diary -- whatever happens now, i om i like the got

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