The Nation - News from Sept. 13, 1989

Former President Ronald Reagan continued to recover well from surgery to remove fluid from his brain, a spokesman for Reagan said. Reagan was operated on Friday in Rochester, Minn., for a subdural hematoma, which apparently resulted from a July 4 accident in Mexico when he was thrown from a bucking horse. His daughter, Maureen, visited him, and Reagan, his wife, Nancy, and his daughter had lunch together in the former President’s room at St. Marys Hospital. Reagan has been going through many get-well messages, including cards from Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Stewart and Cardinal John Krol. No date for Reagan’s release from the hospital has been set.