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Credits
Producer: Michelle Buzgon/KRT
Designer: Ron Coddington/KRT
Photography: William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News/KRT; Leonard Ortiz of The Orange County Register/KRT; NBC via KRT; Harry Hamburg of New York Daily News/KRT; Ron T. Ennis of Fort Worth Star-Telegram/KRT; John Kringas of Chicago Tribune/KRT; Phil Valesquez of Chicago Tribune/KRT; Pauline Lubens of Detroit Free Press/KRT; Ken Cedeno/KRT; Reagan Library; Akira Suwa of The Philadelphia Inquirer/KRT; Jeffrey Scales of HBO via KRT; Tim Broekema of Chicago Tribune/KRT