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Meeting Ronald Reagan

GE Retiree Lois Hagebusch fondly recalls the day Ronald Reagan paid a visit to the facility where she worked.

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[My name is Lois Hagebusch.]

[When I started at GE, it was 1957.]

[I was 19 years old, and I was given a job as a stenotypist.]

[One day we were informed that we were going to have a visitor, which was Ronald Reagan.]

[Well, I can tell you, all the girls were just absolutely so excited.]

[He was a very handsome man [chuckles] ,and we were just all very excited]

[to think that he was going to actually come to our facility and talk with us.]

[I'm not sure exactly--I think that might have been 1958 or 1959, but I'm not sure.]

[I went on to work for GE for 43 years, retiring in 2001.]