The hand-written White House diaries of late US president Ronald Reagan will be published next year, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library said on Tuesday.

　　In a joint announcement, the library and Harper Collins Publishers, the publishing house which acquired the rights to publish Ronald Reagan's hand-written diaries from his eight-year term as 40th US president, said the diaries will be published as a book to be release in 2006.

　　"When we left Sacramento (for Washington), we felt the time passed so quickly, we could hardly remember the eight years," said Nancy Reagan.

　　"When Ronnie became president, he wanted to write it all down so we could remember these special times."

　　The diaries, which are at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, are the most detailed presidential diaries in American history, according to library officials.

　　"Each day during his eight years in the White House, Ronald Reagan recorded his innermost thoughts and observations in his personal diary," said Frederick Ryan Jr., chairman of the board of trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

　　"Although they were not initially intended for publication, we feel that these volumes offer an unprecedented insight into the Reagan presidency," Ryan said.

　　The original copies of the diaries went on display today at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the exhibit will continue into the future, said Melissa Giller of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.