Reagan presidential library opens for history’s judgment SIM! VALLliY, Calif. (AIM Ron• a I ci Hoag a n opened his presi dential 11brarv Monday and in viled ihe world to "come and learn from 11 " He was Joined by President flush and their three predecessors in the first gathering ever of five IJ S chief executives Pleven years to the day since he was elected president, the 80-year-old Reagan joined Bush, Jimmy Carter, Coraid Ford and Richard Nixon at the hilltop library under brilliant, windswept skies A band played "Hail to the Chief as they took the stage Air Force F- 18s flew over "The doors of this library are open now and all are wel come." Reagan told a crowd of 4,200 invited guests "The judgment of history is left to you, the people I have no fears of that. VVe have done our best And so I say, 'Come and learn from if " In addition to the presidents and their wives. Lady Bird Johnson and her daughter rep resented the late Lyndon John son, and John Kennedy Jr and Caroline Kennedy Schlosslmrg were there for their late father, John F Kennedy There were also relatives of President Franklin Roosevelt Reagan's fellow chief exeru lives took turns at the micro phone, praising him and look ing bar k on the challenges of their own administrations Hush, who was Reagan's vice president, called him his men tor and hailed him as an American original a vision ary, a < rusader and a prophet in his time." Ronald Reagan predicted that communism would land in the dustbin of history and his lory proved him right," said Bush Reagan's defense buildup "paid off for every American" in the Gulf war, ho said "He was the great communi cator and also the great lifmra tor," the -list president said of the 40111 "No leader since Churchill used words so effri lively to help freedom unchain our world." Nixon said Reagan would he remembered as a president who believed in freedom and de mocracy and who "restored America's military might " Ford said Reagan was a lead er who was "able to articulate the highest hopes and deepest beliefs of the American peo ple." liven Carter, who hurried back from election-monitoring in Zambia to attend tfie dedica tion, had kind words for the man who ruined his reduction hopes Under Reagan. Carter said, "our nation stood strong and resolute and made possible tfie beginning of the end of the Cold War " Carter, the only Democrat of the five, jokingly alluded to Re publican presidential domi nance in the last quarter cen tury "I have one concern, and licit is that the Republican represen tation fias four times as much lime on the program as the Democratic." Carter said to laughs from the largely COP crowd "You all have another advantage over me At least all of you have met a Derma ratii president I've never had that honor yet Bush said he felt badlv about that hut asked that voters "please don't do anything” about it Reagan's tone was senbeen tal, but no more so than at many limes while fie vs as presi dent "A! one tlmo ur another I've run against most of these gen tlemon and they've run against me," he said "And vet here we .ire It just goes to show that above personal ideologies and party politics, we stand united as Americans" Reagan said. "I have been de ss rita-d as an undying optimist It's true 1 always see the sun ny side of life." Citing the collapse of com munism. Keegan said, "I have seen the world turned upside down and conventional wis dom utterly disproved Visitors to this mountatntop will see a great jagged chunk, of the Berlin Wall, hated symbol of, vs. an evil empire " ■'Today that wall exists only in museums, souvenir collec turns and the memories of a people no longer oppressed," lie said Also on hand for the cereino ny were former Reagan admin istration officials James Watt. Caspar Weinberger, Michael Denver and Hush's secretary of state, James A Itaker 111. Just back from the Mideast peace talks in Madrid. Spain In keeping with Reagan's show business background, the audience also included such Hollywood stars as Hob Hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Merv Critlin and Charlton Heston In the latest reading on Rea gun's standing, nearly three years after be left the White House, a l,ns tnge/e*. //rues poll published Mon.lay sug gested that people who gave Reagan landslide victories are divided on his legacy, and many consider him only an av erage president Another election is just a year away, and Democrats saw Bush's attendance as an oppor Potential Kennedy trial jurors questioned wfst halm iu:ach. hi a (AH) "Saturday Night Live," tho Uuardian Angels and (diap paquiddick figured in question ing Mondav of potential jurors lor William Kennedy Smith's rape tri.il The third day of selection fo cused on attitudes about the Kennedy family and pretrial publicity, which in recent days has been mostlv favorable to Smith "Now that it's time to do bat tle, there's a definite momen tum in lavor of the defense," said lawyer Joe Mini berg, who represents an important state w itness, Anne Mercer News stories in rei cut days have included profiles of Smith's daily routine that in cludes morning swims and playing with a new puppy, and declarations of his innocence by C.'athy Bennett, a veteran jury-selection expert who's but tling cancer while helping Smith Mtncherg said such publicity likely reaches potential jurors in some form A Smith spokes woman, Barbara liatnarekiun. said Monday there's no organ ized publicity effort Smith. 31-year-old nephew of Sen Ldward M Kennedy, I) Muss . has denied a Florida woman's allegations that he raped her March 30 at his fami ly's estate Kennedy was at the estate that weekend and will be a trial witness. Questioning of potential juror Robert Fleming resumed Mon day with defense attorney Roy Black asking if he saw any pickets OUtSlde tile < Durihuusi unci if he watched N1H -i "Sat urduy Night Live;- over the weekend "It tumii on ! turned it off, ‘ Fleming replied SNL began with .1 '.kit s.itiriz Ing questioning In Smith's at tornuys about potential jurors attitudes on ins famous undos Fleming also told IIlac k he saw no pickets Members of the (biardian An gels, tbu volunteer anti crime group based in Now York, picketed outside the Kennedy I-.!,ili Sunday and outside the con r!houMonday Their li'.idiT. l.urtis Sliw.1, they urge lioth sides m the iri.il to "keep il clean Smith glanced at the pickets as he went to lunch HK only comments were about Bennett, 40, "an extraordinary inspire lion to me " Prosecutors, lawyers, police and court personnel are under a gag order banning them from comment on the case beyond general statements MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TEACH! 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