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From rags to riches.

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One day, Dutch Reagan, as he was known at this time in Dixon, Illinois,

was returning from a team practice and walked towards his family's house

when he saw a man face down and in the snow.

It was his father, Jack.

The Reagan picked him up, and the noticeable but not unfamiliar scent of whiskey was strong.

He brought him inside.

This was not an unusual incident in the Reagan's home in Dixon. Jack was a shoe salesman, not a successful one. He tinkered with many businesses during the

Depression, moved his family around, went to business trip. Many of them turned out to be

little more than binges. And for the most part, Jack ceded the raising of the Reagan children

to Reagan's mother, Nellie. As Michael Deaver would describe it. After lugging Jack to his bed one

night, Nellie would sit next to Ronald Reagan

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