Word: reaganization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relations with him were always the same as anybody, anybody who came into his orbit. Reagan had no interest in individual human character. Therefore it was all one, whether the Biographer walked into the oval office, or a Labor Union leader, or the President of Bangladesh. So I never got past that genial...
...burden, particularly when the word "Official" was used. Because people instantly thought that I was doing something that Reagan and Nancy Reagan would have to approve, which was never the case. If they'd ever tried to get any control and look at what I wrote, I'd have walked away from the project...
...preserving a shocked silence...I can recognize her voice in some of the things George Will has been saying--he is her current PR representative. Some one told me the other day that when you go to George Wills' house he has a whole corridor of pictures of Nancy Reagan...
...which there was absolutely no intrusion of the present. The reader gets the feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald Reagan. And the method I took with Ronald Reagan grew directly out of his own stage personality...
...purpose in writing the book? Well, just simply to tell a story -- which is all I've ever wanted to do in my life, is just to tell a story. What drew me to Theodore Roosevelt, and what drew me to Reagan is the fact that both had extraordinarily interesting life stories. And were both extraordinarily interesting characters. I did not want to write about Reagan for any political reasons, his politics bore me. I did want to make money, so that was certainly a consideration. But on the other hand, if I'd only been after money...