Reagan Diaries

[Boom_70]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

 

[Ace]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

That's 'cause he forgot to put 'em on.

 

[User 1019]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

That's 'cause he forgot to put 'em on.

Damn. That's just dirty.

 

[Boom_70]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

That's 'cause he forgot to put 'em on.

You are mixing it up with the Clinton Diaries.

....had embarrising moment today. Was meeting with Monica in my private office when Hillary called to tell me to hurry up the the residence. She told me she had found the missing billing records. I was so excited I forgot to put my pants back on.

 

[Ace]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

That's 'cause he forgot to put 'em on.

You are mixing it up with the Clinton Diaries.

....had embarrising moment today. Was meeting with Monica in my private office when Hillary called to tell me to hurry up the the residence. She told me she had found the missing billing records. I was so excited I forgot to put my pants back on.

No. See. Clinton didn't forget -- he was multitasking.

Big difference.

 

[21]

My next book:

THE PRESIDENTIAL PANTS
An Illustrated Century of Trousers and Asses

 

[blueview]

Picked up over weekend and cannot put down. Very interesting read and insight into the Reagan years. Doug Brinkley did a great job pulling it together.

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters. I've yet to come across a passage where Reagan complains about how his pants fit.

Read the excerpts in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. I must say that Reagan had a wry sense of humor, but only exercised it briefly and accordingly in his passages.

 

[zeke12]

My next book:

THE PRESIDENTIAL PANTS
An Illustrated Century of Trousers and Asses

It feels like I'm riding a wire fence in these...

 

[Claws for Concern]

What does he say about his appearance in that Genesis video where he's a puppet?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

"I can too multitask, Adriana. I am not a retard."

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters.

Reagan was used to making pictures, creating grand illusions.

At the very bedrock, it was all he knew.

Prtty much describes 1980-88. In and out, inside out, outside in, don't wake him.

 

[Boom_70]

My next book:

THE PRESIDENTIAL PANTS
An Illustrated Century of Trousers and Asses

"My nuts feel like their are riding a barbed wire fence"

LBJ

 

[cranberry]

What is clear early on is how engaged Reagan was on big picture matters.

Reagan was used to making pictures, creating grand illusions.

At the very bedrock, it was all he knew.

Prtty much describes 1980-88. In and out, inside out, outside in, don't wake him.

I know Ronnie has been sainted in recent years, but this is the way I remember him, too. Always the VERY big picture but spare him the details. It was all black and white. Good vs. evil. Lot's of theatrics. Lots of simplistic solutions: Star wars! Just say no! Meanwhile, the boys in the back room carried out the real plan, sort of like today.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Before President Stupid, he's the only guy who couldn't separate Gucci from the Medici, in Vidal's words. Only that Nancy wore one of the two.

American Hero indeed.

 

[Boom_70]

Before President Stupid, he's the only guy who couldn't separate Gucci from the Medici, in Vidal's words. Only that Nancy wore one of the two.

American Hero indeed.

LJB - As you see it did Reagan accomplish anything of value in his 8 years in Washington?

 

[21]

Not my favorite president, but I always felt the relationship between Ronnie and Nancy was very genuine and touching....seemed they were truly in love, and stayed that way.

 

[jimmymcd]

Oh golly, I bet I can guess LJB's answer.

Who gives a rat's ass what Vidal says about anything. Most irrrelevant man ever, possibly.

 

[Bob Slydell]

My next book:

THE PRESIDENTIAL PANTS
An Illustrated Century of Trousers and Asses

"My nuts feel like their are riding a barbed wire fence"

LBJ

Man, I was thinking of LBJ when I saw this. On Stern a long while back they were playing released tapes of him he made. And some were freakin' awesome, especially when he;s talking about his pants and his nuts.

He had to have the pockets made a special way so he could adjust his junk. Especially after seeing the Allison Stokke pics!

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

LJB - As you see it did Reagan accomplish anything of value in his 8 years in Washington?

U.S.-Canadian Trade Pact

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

So are the passages about selling missiles to terrorists and empowering death squads to murder American priests and nuns a laff riot?