Presidential Love

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Around the US, many citizens will enjoy a three-day weekend in celebration of this wonderful holiday. People will send out Twitter and Facebook messages about their favorite presidents and an endless amount of politicking will occur over the next 19 hours. But not on this site. We will observe President’s Day not by talking politics but rather by celebrating love.

Our current president and first lady will celebrate 20 years of marriage this October so I thought it onlyPresident Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan appropriate to share a letter sent from one of our beloved former presidents (while he was still governor) to his first lady around their 20th anniversary. It is a wonderful testament of love between a husband and wife.

Throughout the week, I’ll be posting notes and letters from husbands and/or wives married more than 30 years. I find it a true blessing to learn about those who have remained happy and in love until the very end. My hope is you will find great inspiration, just as I have, in learning how these wonderful couples remained in love throughout all their days.

Transcript will follow.

State of California
GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
SACRAMENTO 95814

RONALD REAGAN
GOVERNOR

My Darling Wife

This note is to warn you of a diabolical plot entered into by some of our so called friends – (ha!) calendar makers and even our own children. These and others would have you believe we’ve been married 20 years.

20 minutes maybe – but never 20 years. In the first place it is a known fact that a human cannot sustain the high level of happiness I feel for more than a few minutes – and my happiness keeps increasing.

I will confess to one puzzlement but I’m sure it is just some trick perpetrated by our friends – (Ha again!) I can’t remember ever being without you and I know I was born more than 20 mins ago.

Oh well – that isn’t important. The important thing is I don’t want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are. I’ve gotten very used to being happy and I love you very much indeed.

Your Husband of 20 something or other.

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).