Dana Rohrabacher: “I remember one day when the President was speaking before a rally at a parking lot in North Carolina, where a young lady…”

“I remember one day when the President was speaking before a rally at a parking lot in North Carolina, where a young lady grabbed me by the arm and said, ``I am here with a group of blind children. They cannot see. They cannot really get up into this crowd to hear as much as they should be able to, so I have had to keep them back here on the side. I was wondering if it was possible for,'' and they called him Governor Reagan at that time, because he was not elected President yet, ``for Governor Reagan to come here and to shake hands with these young people.'' As the rally was over, the press were getting into their buses, and I mentioned this to Mike Deaver, and Ronald Reagan was in earshot and heard me talking about these young blind children. He said ``Look, I don't want anybody in the press to come over there, because I don't want these young people to think that I'm trying to exploit young people, or blind children, for my candidacy, so do not tell the press anything.…”