Ronald Reagan Dies at 93

[mburbank]

I'm from Massachusetts, I was in my twenties, and my recollection is not of Tip Oneil liking him. In his Memoirs Tip writes about Reagan dismantling every single thing he'd spent his whole life working toward, turning the middle class on the poor and being the stupidest president he'd ever worked with.

Nixon is the President of my youth, and I suppose though I hated the evil bastard, I still feel the grudging nostaligia Kev talks about. What I remember about Reagan right off the bat is that he was a genial liar who didn't even know when he was lying during the campaign. Many of his annecedotes, both the folksy charmers and the venemous anti-poor ones, turned out to have no basis at all in fact. Some of them he made up, and some were movies (See the 'ball turret gunner' annecdote, one he continued to tell even after he'd been told it was from a movie). I think being an actor should disqualify you from running foir office, and I'm an actor.

I feel bad for anyone who dies slowly from Alsheimers, although I think that 'slowly' being only ten years is a damn lie and his physicians knew it . But the manner of his death doesn't change what I think of his presidency. That being said, I think our current President makes Reagan and the Bush he gave us look like gold in comparison.