**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan holds up U.S. Senate candidate Arlen Specter's hand at fund-raising party for Specter in Philadelphia on Aug. 19, 1980. (Associated Press)
A class titled “Reagan 101” begins later this month at Eureka College, the late president’s Illinois alma mater, taught by Reagan historian Craig Shirley. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library)
The 1980 presidential election changed a week before Election Day when Republican challenger Ronald Reagan won voters’ confidence in a debate with President Carter. (Associated Press)
A posed action photo of Ronald Reagan playing the doomed Notre Dame halfback George Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne - All American. (Associated Press)
Newt and Callista Gingrich honor Ronald Reagan at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. on Thursday, August 30, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/ The Washington Times)
This undated image released by PFCAuctions shows a vial containing President Ronald Reagan's dried blood residue. A Channel Islands online auction house has angered the Reagan Foundation by claiming to offer a vial that once contained his blood. The auctioneers say it was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington. (AP Photo/PFCAuctions)
As planes take off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, lawmakers on nearby Capitol Hill are arguing for an Article 84 court challenge against EU fees for carbon emissions. (Associated Press)