Posted on 06/08/2004 8:54:12 AM PDT by lainie
Edited on 06/08/2004 11:18:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Controversy develops over Reagan funeral speakers...
'President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was,' a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. 'He's angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet'...
CLINTON DISAPPOINTMENT: LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST
Former President Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been left off the speakers list of Friday's Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
"President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was," a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. "He's angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet."
The top source says Clinton has been critical that both Bush presidents will address the crowd gathered at National Cathedral.
Nixon's vice president Gerald Ford did not speak at Nixon's funeral.
Clinton's inner circle is convinced Nancy Reagan has personally shut out Clinton from any high-profile participation.
"It is a state funeral, using tax dollars," the top Clinton insider explained.
Former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will join President Bush in eulogizing Ronald Reagan, Reagan's office announced. Presiding over the service will be former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, who is an ordained Episcopal priest. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the Rabbi Harold Kusher will give readings, while Irish tenor Ronan Tynan will sing.
The eulogy is being prepared by President Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, who also wrote the president's moving speech for a memorial service in the same cathedral after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Developing...
Keep him silent.
This #%#& never ceases to amaze me with his lack of respect for the office of the Presidency,and the people who the White House belongs to,us!
Superb stuff.
I don't really care for either of them politically but they were very respectful & classy, which was very nice to see.
I don't really care for them either, but was likewise touched by their respect and NOT NEEDING TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTNETION!
You're absolutely right... I hadn't considered it that way. Thanks :-)
Exactly! It was planned in 1981, for crying out loud!
Before most people in the country had even heard of Bill C. and Jimmah C.
And yet, it's all about them, somehow, isn't it?
I agree and whether he though this would help his setup with Knopf and that huge advance. This POS white trash gets what he deserves. His destiny is his character or vice versa.
Maybe he thought this would be his great coming out party after being pidgeon-holed as an profane oddity.
And according to another thread around here, Pelosi wouldn't let her office send flowers to the funeral home, nor would someone/whoever in her office allow the flag to be lowered one minute before the official word came out from DC to lower the flags.
These people sicken me.
I agree!
Way to go Nancy... I would have done the same thing! These two **icks deserved no better treatment, after their many "partisan" public comments denegrating the Reagans. What goes around comes around, rats. Deal with it.
Anyone who has cared for someone like Ronnie as long as she did has a core of steel.
You're absolutely right... I hadn't considered it that way. Thanks
I try and consider this too, she didn't have to have all this, it isn't FOR her it's for US! She could have opted for a private funeral, we would have understood.
I bless and thank her for this!
Thank heavens RR was far beyond knowing what was going on in the WH by 1998...
The picture of Elian took me back in time; it's still a shocking image. And for some reason that took me back to Waco. He incinerated those women and children; contravened Posse Comitatus without the slightest hesitation or justification.
At the time Waco occurred, I wasn't too alarmed about it. It took my Mother (an Italian immigrant, who graduated from what would be the equivalent of US 8th Grade) to point out what an evil it was, and what a dangerous precedent was set.
What a descent the Clinton years were. As George Will said, 'he may not have been the worst President, but he was the worst man who ever was President.'
I am deeply disappointed it isn't Bill's funeral, hopefully that is coming soon.
Proof that Nancy has taste.
"Reagan, Reagan, Reagan!! Everybody loves Reagan. What am I but a shadow in Ron’s perfect light? Yeah, that’s right: I skipped all my national security responsibilities - not like it matters. He gets an 'A' as president. I got a 'C', but who cares that I brought it up from a 'D-' my first term. "
- Willie Jeff "Jan Brady" Clinton, America's first juvenile president.
No perverts allowed.
"Reagan, Reagan, Reagan!! Everybody loves Reagan. What am I but a shadow in Ron’s perfect light? Yeah, that’s right: I skipped all my national security responsibilities - not like it matters. He gets an 'A' as president. I got a 'C', but who cares that I brought it up from a 'D-' my first term. "
- Willie Jeff "Jan Brady" Clinton, America's first juvenile president.
Those fools should butt out and let Nancy Reagan bury the husband she loved so much in peace. And let us pay our respects as we are able, too.
Seems like if they can't get TV time in the Cathedral, they sure as h*ll will scrounge for ink!
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