Reagan on the right
A Science article in the March 23 A-section said that Ronald Reagan was left-handed. Although many lists of left-handed presidents include him, Reagan was right-handed, according to people who knew him. He performed some activities that require dexterity with his left hand, but he wrote with his right, which is the conventional determiner of handedness. Joanne Drake, who served as Reagan’s chief of staff after his presidency, said yesterday that she and others had “heard the president say he was born left-handed and was forced to learn to write with his right hand as a young child.” Link
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