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President of the United States · On the sandbag line, 1982
On the record
During the March 1982 flood fight he joined the sandbag line in Fort Wayne on 16 March — proven by National Archives and DVIDS photographs.
The claim that he coined “The City That Saved Itself” is not established in “In 1982 the river crested at 26.93 feet, 30,000 volunteers saved the city, and Reagan named it ‘The City That Saved Itself.’”: no Reagan transcript with the phrase was found.
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- § 02 — the Story of Fort Wayne section
- “In 1982 the river crested at 26.93 feet, 30,000 volunteers saved the city, and Reagan named it ‘The City That Saved Itself.’”
From § 02 and “In 1982 the river crested at 26.93 feet, 30,000 volunteers saved the city, and Reagan named it ‘The City That Saved Itself.’” in § 03.