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On This Day: January 4
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Every entry on this date through all eight years of the Reagan administration.
Diary Entry - 01/04/1987
Key Facts
President Reagan travels to Bethesda Naval Hospital for a medical examination.
President Reagan has 4 benign polyps removed from his colon.
An Amtrak train bound from Washington to Boston collides with Conrail engines approaching from a side track in Chase, Maryland, and 16 people are killed.
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Off to the hospital for check up—today. Tomorrow the operation. Sometimes I think the check up is worse than the operation. I swallow about a gallon & a half of Golightly. Then there is the exam.
