Youtube Video of a Supercool Ronald Reagan hanging out with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin

[Sivad]

I have to admire your respect for Ronald Reagan. However,
your description of him as “supercool” applies only in
the sense that everything I like is automatically
supercool. It may be a generational way of looking at
things. Errol Flynn was quite the Hollywood party boy
A lister. He and Reagan acted together and were friends
but Flynn described Reagan as a square. Reagan was
governor when I went to a California state College and
even those of us who supported him didn’t think of him
as anything close to supercool. His critics referred to
him as a ‘B movie’ actor. I loved the fact that while
Reagan closed the public colleges for a few days during a
period of upheaval he allowed my school, Cal Poly, to
stay open.

The real boost to Reagan in the presidential election of
‘80 was the fact that he was talking up the future while
Carter was telling us that things were in the shitter
and to get used to it. Like Obama today it was Carter’s
way of saying “this is bigger than all of us so it ain’t
my fault”. If the next GOP presidential nominee plays
the Reagan ‘morning in America’ card then it will be a
slam dunk against Hilarious. Even Democrats can only
take so much “it is what it is” talk. Reagan had good,
strong ideas but more than that he had the training and
experience to deliver his message. If you want to describe
that as supercool then at least we can agree on the
man if not the pathway.

[Ditto]

The media and the country really loved Ford, for pardoning the middle class kids who fled to Canada, to avoid serving in the Vietnam war.

Hmmmmmm. Ford did not pardon the draft dodgers.... Carter did, and outside of left wing circles, it was an very unpopular move.

[Bratch]

Errol Flynn was quite the Hollywood party boy A lister. He and Reagan acted together and were friends but Flynn described Reagan as a square.

Compared to Errol Flynn, most of the western hemisphere was square.

[5150 FREEPER]

Ping

[Sivad]

To be on Flynn’s personal list
of squares would be almost similar
to making Charlie Sheen’s list today,
yes. But I doubt Flynn bothered to
reflect on too many guys other than
Reagan.

[CapnJack]

Here is a good one. And there is another great actor on the far right who would have made a great President.

[SkyPilot]

Here is the link you posted as clickable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5WAFzwlIA

Do you know how to post a link?

[MinuteGal]

What a photograph!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much...it's indeed a New Year's day treat.

Loved the guy on the far right!

Still do!

Leni

[Rockingham]

Good points. Reagan's election in 1980 was assured as the public became more acquainted with him and confident that he was not as Democratic myth had it, a militarist who would risk nuclear war and a radical right winger intending to dismantle the welfare state.

When Reagan was President, I knew a woman who was a longtime friend from his lifeguard days. I asked what Reagan was really like. "Just like he seems" she replied.

As it happened, she had just received and showed me the gift of a large signed, mounted, and framed picture of Reagan standing on the back portico of the White House, impeccably dressed, but relaxed and smiling as he leaned against a column. The picture came with a handwritten letter from Reagan reminiscing about her late husband, Prescott, and their days as lifeguards.

Reagan, despite his super cool manner and genuine toughness, genuinely enjoyed writing and reading chatty letters with old friends. Beneath the polished manner, his impeccable appearance, and record of accomplishment was in fact a genuinely nice man.

[itsahoot]

Muhammad Ali became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world because because Sonny Liston took a dive.

[itsahoot]

I’m sure there were purist future FReepers in 1979 who would have questioned Reagan keeping such dubious company.

Maybe if they used the same psychic that Nancy did.

[itsahoot]

Even to me, Carter looked like such a fool and whatever the heck he was doing was not benefiting America, nor Americans.

22% interest had nothing to do with it, right?

[itsahoot]

Compared to Errol Flynn, most of the western hemisphere was square.

Errol liked underage girls.

[Bratch]

5 surprising secrets about Hollywood legend Errol Flynn

By Reed Tucker  | August 25, 2014 | 1:36pm

He was one of Hollywood’s all-time great ladies’ men — a spirited womanizer who inspired the expression “in like Flynn.” The actor’s twilight years are recounted in Friday’s “The Last of Robin Hood,” which details Errol Flynn’s (Kevin Kline) raucous life and his relationship with an underage aspiring actress named Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning).

Here are five more scandalous facts about Flynn, who died in 1959.