I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

On May 9 2000 Maureen Reagan was the speaker at the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Peace Garden on campus. The Reagan Peace Garden recognized her father's contribution to the end of the Cold War. Sills a lawyer and Marine Corps officer; they married on 28 February 1964 and divorced in 1967.

Her siblings were Michael Reagan; a sister Christine who died shortly after birth and—from her father's second marriage to Nancy Davis—Patti Davis and Ron Reagan.