Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan was the all-American. Well actually there's not as much of me in it as you'd think. The narrator is rather unlike me, he's mathematical and Germanic, I am neither of those things. Also well-born and elitist, which I am not. The musical part is me--I couldn't help that because I think in terms of music. I only incorporate things like the TR book because it's directly related to how I became Reagan's biographer, and when I do talk about myself it is for structural reasons. And you are absolutely right...
...biography you don't talk about Reagan's children very much at all. Is that indicative of Reagan's treatment of them...
...there ever any moment when you were with Reagan when you thought "This is Ronald Reagan...
...landscape--what he loved to do. And he was in these jeans, work clothes, and he was working with buzz saws and tree hooks with two guys, ranch hands. The President and these two guys communicated entirely in grunts. And I realized that this is the real Ronald Reagan here, a hard, quiet, taciturn man's man, working with his body. In the current Talk Magazine there's an article by me talking about Reagan chopping down trees and this personal force of his, and there's a photograph of us at the ranch that particular day I'm telling...
...both qualified, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore; they don't have nearly enough scandal in their lives to cause national uproar. But Warren! He's slept with more women than Ron Jeremy and pissed off more people than Jesse Ventura. Sure, he's probably another Reagan--a glamorous personality, absolutely no idea how to be president--but at least people will vote, right? Now the Reform Party just named Oprah Winfrey as a potential candidate and Oprah quickly distanced herself from the whole mess. But can you imagine that? Oprah vs. Warren? Man vs. Woman? Spirituality...