"Also I think there's a deficiency in certain historians - they lived through it, so it's not history yet."
You're right--that's probably part of it, too.
They were just replaying Bush 41 giving the eulogy for Reagan, where Bush started crying during the eulogy. He broke up just as he was starting to say that he learned more from Reagan than he had from anyone else during his career in public office. I think that's reflected in GW--lots of people have mentioned how he seems more like Reagan than his father, and maybe that explains why. I guess maybe Reagan was sort of a political grandfather to GW in that way.
Where's the Elf-Maiden today?