Ronald Wilson Reagan’s father remarked that he looked like a fat little Dutchman when he was a baby and it stuck. Thus the nickname Dutch.
HA! Yes, thanks. I thought for a moment you were talking about Rod Rosenstein!
I lived for a time where Dutch grew up and worked as a lifeguard on the river. My office was right next to the County Republican headquarters when he won in ‘80. With the Poles beginning to take back their country from the Communists, starting with Lech Walesa in the Lenin Shipyards, it was a surely a heady time.