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Lois Perison Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif...
Ronald Reagan's love of the wildness at his Rancho del Cielo and his designation of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior represent a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality [Jan. 51. How would Reagan feel if his "ranch in the sky" were sacrificed to the drillers, diggers and scrapers as an insignificant contribution to a short-term energy solution...
Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian was granted unprecedented access to Reagan's Rancho del Cielo near Goleta, Calif. Ajemian spent two days there and wrote the four-page story on the President-elect's hide away. Reagan had eagerly sketched a plan of the ranch in Ajemian's notebook during the 1976 campaign. Says Ajemian: "Finally seeing it, I understood why he had talked about it so much...
...deception and, above all, perfect containment?the individual and the land, man and God locked in a snakeless Eden. James Fenimore Cooper wrote a novel, Satanstoe, about such a place, an ideal America in which everyone ruled his own vast estate, his own civilization. Whether or not Reagan sees Rancho del Cielo or Pacific Palisades as Satanstoe, his dream of the New World is as old as Cooper...
...calls it Rancho del Cielo-his ranch in the sky-and it is a continent and an era away from the life he will be leading in Washington, D.C. The 688 acres of rugged land nestle in the Santa Ynez Mountains, 2,200ft. above the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The Reagans raise a few cattle on the isolated spread they bought six years ago, but they use it mainly, and eagerly, as a retreat. And so jealously do they guard their privacy that few outsiders have seen their hideaway. As he looked forward...