Going my way with Alan Williams brought to you by the Lawson Family Foundation, planting positive seeds for the future. Welcome to your life. The long awaited movie of president Ronald Reagan portrayed by Dennis Quade is set to hit the theaters. It's a reminder to many of us when the president visited East Tennessee. In nineteen eighty two, and it wasn't a quick stopover after landing at McGee Tyson. He made his way to open the world's fair. I wish all of you a good time and hope that as you stroll around these grounds, You're as grateful and proud to be an American as I am. Two years into his presidency after winning more than sixty percent of voters in East Tennessee, folks were overwhelmed, but the president and wife Nancy had just begun their trip they decided to spend the night in our own backyard. After opening the fair, they hopped on the presidential copter heading for Little Huntsville, Tennessee, and the home of longtime friend and then senate majority leader Howard Baker. The visit was only a few months after the assassination attempt on Reagan's life, and security here was tight. Senator Baker was going to show president Reagan his view of the river out on the deck and the Secret Service had the blinds and drapes nailed. And president Reagan jerked him loose. And soon breaker opened the sliding doors and then showed president Reagan his view. That night, a big dinner party included Lamar Alexander wife, Honey, Nashville great, Chett Atkins, and singer Dina Shore who came unannounced. Appeared by helicopter and was almost shot out of the sky. That's the Secret Service did let her land, but they didn't know she was coming. The next morning, they went to church a couple of blocks away. Senator Baker passed away in two thousand fourteen. The house and grounds are now owned by Knoxville railway owner, Pete Claussen. While much of the inside guest house has changed, You can still get a perspective of what the Reagan's experienced. This is just as it was, and nineteen eighty two when President Reagan visited the kitchen. This is not much in here. Isn't it? No. There is none. Small kitchen. Wow. And the dining room is the same. The furniture, of course, is different. All the furniture is different. But It gives you an idea though. Yeah. Very small. And, in the living room here. Here's the living room. Mhmm. And out here is the deck that I referenced where president Reagan grabbed the curtains and blinds that the Secret Service had nailed down and ripped them. Into the president's room. Okay. So this is where This is where they stay. They stay. Uh-huh. President, missus Reagan in May of nineteen eighty two, spent the night here. Now, the fern a lot, some of the furniture is different. Well, the furniture probably is all different, but some of the photographs our Senator Rakers product like this one. And this one is not. He's in it. Okay. But, you know, Fred, for president Reagan signed it. But, you know, Fred, for president stay Is this little bitty room? You know, you you think, oh, this should be palatial, but it No. It's very small and and, you know, got the seal on the floor and it's indicative of, you know, where a president stayed and everything. But, Not a lot. There's nothing a retired governor can do about the Soviets, but a president. Now, you can do a thing or two. As this new movie hits theaters, it lends a reminder when a presidential couple overwhelmed small town, spending the night and a little cabin in her own backyard. Going my way in Huntsville, Tennessee. I'm Alan Williams.