Reagan Doodles

[YankeeFan]

Kind of a cute story. I guess he must have been bored with the meeting.

Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime minister's newly released papers reveal.

The page of ink drawings is among personal papers from 1981 released Saturday by the Thatcher archive at Cambridge University.

Reagan left the piece of paper sitting on a table at the meeting near Ottawa, Canada, in July 1981. It is adorned with a scribbled eye, a man's muscular torso and several heads, including one that looks like a self portrait.

"She told me it was fascinating to see it, and she just grabbed them," said historian Chris Collins of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. "He just left it on his desk. She snaffled it up, put it in her papers, brought it back to Downing Street and kept it in her flat."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57399242/papers-reveal-thatcher-kept-reagans-doodles/

 

[Dick Whitman]

Kind of a cute story. I guess he must have been bored with the meeting.

Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime minister's newly released papers reveal.

The page of ink drawings is among personal papers from 1981 released Saturday by the Thatcher archive at Cambridge University.

Reagan left the piece of paper sitting on a table at the meeting near Ottawa, Canada, in July 1981. It is adorned with a scribbled eye, a man's muscular torso and several heads, including one that looks like a self portrait.

"She told me it was fascinating to see it, and she just grabbed them," said historian Chris Collins of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. "He just left it on his desk. She snaffled it up, put it in her papers, brought it back to Downing Street and kept it in her flat."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57399242/papers-reveal-thatcher-kept-reagans-doodles/

Do you think shriek radio might play the naked male torso differently since it's Ronnie rather than, say, Ted Kennedy or LBJ?

 

[Starman]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Do you think shriek radio might play the naked male torso differently since it's Ronnie rather than, say, Ted Kennedy or LBJ?

Or if Obama or Clinton were found to have been drawing anything at all instead of being laser-focused on the meeting?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Hollywood actor? Friends with Rock Hudson? Drew pictures of buff naked men?

I'm not saying he was gay. But the question is out there.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Hollywood actor? Friends with Rock Hudson? Drew pictures of buff naked men?

I'm not saying he was gay. But the question is out there.

4,000 Tea Party members just shot their dog and have no idea why.

 

[imjustagirl]

Hollywood actor? Friends with Rock Hudson? Drew pictures of buff naked men?

I'm not saying he was gay. But the question is out there.

Had sex with Nancy Reagan?

 

[SpeedTchr]

I think that is actually Thatcher's torso.

 

[SFIND]

This sparked a memory I had of watching something on CBS once about presidential doodles. A quick Google search revealed it must have been on Sunday Morning:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-3445_162-2146473.html?tag=page

Presidential doodles are quite common.

 

[SpeedTchr]

When any prez starts doodling cities with mushroom clouds over them, that's when I worry...

 

[cyclingwriter]

Hollywood actor? Friends with Rock Hudson? Drew pictures of buff naked men?

I'm not saying he was gay. But the question is out there.

4,000 Tea Party members just shot their dog and have no idea why.

You owe me a new computer screen from the coffee I just spewed

 

[cyclingwriter]

Also, love the guy with the mullet

 

[Big Circus]

I dig the guy with the pipe. That one's got a Good Soldier Svejk quality to it.

 

[deskslave]

These Thatcher papers are slowly trickling out because there's a 30-year window on them. I suspect that the period from 1981-1988 will contain a few interesting revelations about ol' Rayguns.

 

[Gator]

Hollywood actor? Friends with Rock Hudson? Drew pictures of buff naked men?

I'm not saying he was gay. But the question is out there.

"WHO CARES IF HE WAS GAY??!!?!" - Magic Johnson fans