Boys and girls, in death as in life, Ronald Reagan was and is SHOW BIZ!
I learned fron NPR this morning that the script was written 16 years ago. The plans for these doings were devised, in great detail, when he was still in office, and they are being carried out almost in exact detail as planned then.
I'm told that the timetable has been stretched a little to accommodate the IMF conference at Sea Island, so that international leaders are available to attend, but the script (screenplay?) was written a LONG time ago.