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RONALD REAGAN: THE GREAT PEN PAL...
...been cultivating the island's key politicians? Kenneth McClintock, minority leader of Puerto Rico's Senate, got a visit last December at his San Juan office from Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who dropped by to plug his candidacy. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has been a faithful McClintock phone pal. McClintock says his "added value" will kick in when he tours states like New York, Illinois and Florida next January to recruit the large number of Puerto Rican voters for his chosen candidate. Who's on McClintock's short list? The Senator says he likes Dean, who as Governor supported...
While Bush is widely seen as one of the most genuinely devout modern Presidents, Reagan was sometimes charged with being a phony, one who talked up religious values but was actually a divorced, nonchurchgoing Hollywood type who was remote from his own kids. He tells one pen pal that he would go to church more if he could, but the Secret Service argued that because of terrorism threats he presented too big a risk to other parishioners. Yet elsewhere, Reagan sounds better equipped to lead a congregation than join one. In a 1978 letter, he argues with a California pastor...
...GREAT PEN PAL He was known for his oratorical skills, but where Ronald Reagan really revealed himself was in the letters he wrote. A look at some telling excerpts...
...even if the messages themselves were brief. When it wasn’t Harvard officials brightening my day in Pine, I discovered a slew of messages from people as far away as Germany—and who doesn’t like a foreign pen pal? Suddenly, people with my name somehow in their address books—as well as the people in their address books—were contacting me for no particular reason other than to talk about “RE: Subj: Your Details.” At last, someone really cared! SoBig had enlarged...