Editing Rancho Mirage, California (section)

===Presidential history===
[[File:President_George_W._Bush,_Former_President_Gerald_Ford,_and_Betty_Ford.jpg|thumb|President [[George W. Bush]] greeting the media in Rancho Mirage with President [[Gerald Ford]] and [[Betty Ford]]]]
[[File:President_Benigno_S._Aquino_III_poses_with_United_States_President_Barack_Obama_and_fellow_Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations_(ASEAN)_Leaders.jpg|thumb|left|President [[Barack Obama]] at the 2016 US-[[ASEAN|ASEAN Summit]] in Rancho Mirage]]
[[File:President Ronald Reagan meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz.jpg|thumb|right|President Reagan meeting with Secretary of State [[George Shultz]] at the [[Annenberg Estate]]]]

Rancho Mirage has been nicknamed the "Playground of the Presidents" due to its extensive history of U.S. presidents residing in and visiting the city. For example, President [[Harry Truman]] regularly visited the [[Tamarisk Country Club]], while President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] lived nearby. President [[Gerald Ford]] and First Lady [[Betty Ford]] were residents of Rancho Mirage for thirty years.{{sfn|Mallette|2011|p=71}} The Fords moved to [[Thunderbird Country Club]] after leaving office.<ref name="Murphy20170118">{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Rosalie |date=January 18, 2017 |title=Six of last seven presidents visited the Palm Springs area after leaving the White House |work=The Desert Sun |url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/18/former-presidents-coachella-valley-obama/96682614/}}</ref>

Walter and Leonore Annenberg's estate, [[Sunnylands]], became known as the western White House during the [[Richard Nixon]] administration in the 1960s. At the time, the estate also became the biggest single-family home in the county. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] also stayed here and President Richard Nixon wrote his last [[State of the Union]] here. President [[Ronald Reagan]] was also a regular visitor at Sunnylands and Presidents Gerald Ford, [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Bill Clinton]], and [[George W. Bush]] have all been visitors here. While President [[George H. W. Bush]] had an official summit here with Japanese Prime Minister [[Toshiki Kaifu]] in 1990, [[Queen Elizabeth II]] of Britain visited in 1980.{{sfn|Baker|2008|p=10}}{{sfn|Baker|2008|pp=117–118}} President [[Barack Obama]] spent two days here in 2013 where he visited with President [[Xi Jinping]] of China. President Obama then became the eighth U.S. president to visit Sunnylands. President Ronald Reagan attended eighteen New Year's Eve celebrations in Rancho Mirage,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Ari |title=Sunnylands: Where Movie Stars And Presidents Play (And Work) |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/06/06/189255912/sunnylands-where-movie-stars-and-presidents-play-and-work |work=NPR |date=June 6, 2013 }}</ref> including every year during the [[Reagan Administration]].{{sfn|Mahler|2005|p=124}}

President [[George H. W. Bush]] played golf with [[Bill Clinton]] in Rancho Mirage throughout the 1990s. President Richard Nixon went to Rancho Mirage a month prior to announcing his resignation from office. Nixon signed the Sunnylands' guestbook on the day he was issued a full pardon from President Ford.<ref name=Murphy20170118/> [[Thunderbird Country Club]] has hosted presidents such as [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. President [[Barack Obama]] visited the country club on Presidents Day in 2020. President Obama hosted three world summits in Rancho Mirage during his presidency.<ref name="kesq.com">{{Cite web|url=https://kesq.com/news/2020/02/17/barack-obama-in-rancho-mirage-for-presidents-day/|title = Barack Obama in Rancho Mirage for Presidents Day|date = February 18, 2020}}</ref> He hosted the first-ever U.S. summit with the [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN) in Rancho Mirage on February 15–16, 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eilperin |first1=Juliet |title=With European trade deal unfinished, Obama to head to Germany in the spring |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/30/with-european-trade-deal-unfinished-obama-to-head-to-germany-in-the-spring/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=December 30, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Makinen |first1=Julie |title=Obama hosts ASEAN summit, a first in the U.S. |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-asean-summit-qa-20160215-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 15, 2016 }}</ref> He also hosted [[King Abdullah II of Jordan]] here in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parsons |first1=Christi |title=Obama is turning Sunnylands estate into Camp David West |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-sunnylands-20140214-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 14, 2014 }}</ref>

President [[Donald Trump]] visited a fundraising event at Porcupine Creek in Rancho Mirage in February 2020.<ref name="kesq.com"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bohannan |first1=Larry |title=Porcupine Creek, site of Trump's upcoming fundraiser, one of the desert's most intriguing golf properties |url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/sports/golf/2020/02/13/larry-ellisons-california-rancho-mirage-golf-property-trump-visit-politics/4751560002/ |work=The Desert Sun |date=February 13, 2020 }}</ref>

President [[Gerald Ford]] died on December 26, 2006, at his home in Rancho Mirage. His first [[Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford|funeral service]] took place in the city days before those first in Washington, 
D.C., on January 2, 2007, and then in Grand Rapids on January 4 that same year.{{Sfn|McDowell|2021|p={{page needed|date=November 2021}}}} First Lady [[Betty Ford]] died on July 8, 2011, in Rancho Mirage.{{sfn|Yenne|2020|p=208}}