People: Dec. 7, 1981

In the latest episode of what might be called Barbara Walters Talks with a Celebrity and Actually Dresses Just Like the Interviewee specials, Walters headed west to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's 688-acre ranch high in the chaparral country of California's Santa Ynez mountains. Walters decked herself out in a western-style suede outfit to match Reagan's outdoorsy duds. In the one-hour ABC special, Reagan allowed that he never got more than a C grade in high school or college and that when he was Governor of California, he would leave the office at 5 p.m., but with a briefcase full of work....

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