Reagan's son gets in line
As President Ronald Reagan reminded the nation once again in his TV speech last week, his own family has been touched by unemployment: he was out of work in the Depression year of 1932, and his father once lost his job on Christmas Eve. He might have added a far more modern story, except that it is less than poignant. Ronald Prescott Reagan, 24, the President's youngest son, is now strolling each week into an unemployment-compensation office in New York City, with a Secret Service escort, to sign up for a $125 check. His career looks...
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