Reagan’s ’84 Gifts: Chain Saw, 2 Riding Crops, 4 Hearing Aids

WASHINGTON â€”  President Reagan’s financial disclosure form released today showed that during 1984 his gifts included a revolver, a chain saw, two riding crops, four hearing aids and a frisky black sheep dog named Lucky valued at $400.

The White House released the disclosure form, showing Reagan’s income, assets and real estate holdings that matched more specific listings from his 1984 income tax return disclosed earlier.

Among the gifts the President received were four hearing aids, two each from Burton Associates of Santa Ana, Calif., and Starkey Labs, Inc., of Minneapolis, worth a total of $3,000.

Reagan, who was shot four years ago, received a revolver engraved with his signature from Leopold Deters of Springfield, Mass. He also got a chain saw and accessories valued at $238 from the Secret Service.

Lucky, the 6-month-old sheep dog sent by the Reagans to obedience school after poster child Kristen Ellis gave her to them in December, was valued at $400.

The First Lady received a $440 desk diary from Leonore Annenberg and Harriet Deutsch, longtime friends, a $400 lap blanket from Joan Heinz, a $200 wool sweater knit for her by Loretta Pogson of Farmington, Conn., and six movie videocassettes valued at $210 from Frank Rothman of Culver City, Calif. Spokesman Larry Speakes said the cassettes may have included one of the President’s old movies.

Reagan himself also got a 1984 Olympic commemorative telephone valued at $325 from Arthur Latno of San Francisco and Harold Boel of Washington, a $450 wristwatch from a group of Brooklyn policemen known as the “A Team,� and a genealogical book, for which no value could be placed, from the people of his ancestral home of Ballyporeen, Ireland.

The first couple also got two riding crops valued at $130 from Eduardo Sanchez Junco of Spain.