may god bless america and ronald wilson reagan. thank you. entlemen, please welcome mrs. ronald reagan. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. i have so many people to thank, but i really particularly want to thank nancy pelosi for all that she did to organize this, bring it together, make it happen. i am very grateful to her. and to everybody else, too. but especially to nancy. the statue is a wonderful likeness of ronnie. and he would be so proud. you know the last time that i was in this room was for ronnie 's service. so it is nice to be back under happier circumstances. i want to thank everybody for being here and for your support your thoughts and your kind wishes and everything that's been said here today and the lovely, lovely singing. so beautiful. thank you

and inspired by the example of ronald wilson reagan we can pay an even greater tribute than the monumenticate here today. we can build that hopeful future that he always saw before him. that is the living tribute that we owe this great man. and it is the tribute that his memory and this nation that he loved deserves. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, majority leader of the united states senate. >> from his earliest days as an actor entertaining crowds at the las vegas strip to his profound -- my state always felt close to president reagan. the same week ronald reagan became governor of california there was a governor next door in nevada. paul managed his campaign. and on the day president reagan was down the street in the white house, paul worked here. paul was president reagan's number one confidant in the senate. when the president asked for things important that's who he went to. president trusted him with many difficult and classified assignments. when he sent him to the -- he is with us today to honor his good friend. he was so close to president reagan, some called him