Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we are shar

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 

Today in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we are sharing this 1986 image of President Reagan’s meeting being interrupted by a friendly leprechaun! President Reagan’s ancestors came to America from County Tipperary by way of England during Ireland’s great potato famine. To learn more about the President, please visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. 

Item: A Leprechaun Interrupting President Ronald Reagan’s Issues Briefing Luncheon in Cabinet Room on St. Patrick’s Day, 3/17/1986. Series: Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. Collection RR-WHPO: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. (National Archives Identifier 75854671).