You know it’s Christmas when the lights on the trees are turned on and decorations are hung from their branches. At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, there are 26 individually decorated trees — each one representing a different country that the former president visited. KCLU’s Caroline Feraday reports from Simi Valley, California.
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