In the same way, during the PATCO labor "unrest" Reagan sat silent at a Cabinet meeting with all the usual suspects predicting the gloom and doom related to every concerted action. Reagan said nothing for 25 minutes but read the Deaver summary of positions ... got up without a word, walked out the door ... and fired all those idiots. Walked back in and said ... "Where were we? No, not the PATCO thing, that's done. What else?"
God bless Ronnie. President Reagan. Bush is close to that kind of stuff. Some flunky thought he needed to intrude on the President's time to inform him that loose cannon Rumsfeld just labeled our adversaries in the War on Terror (France, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, etc.) "Old Europe". He informed Bush that the leaders in Bonn, Stockholm, Brussels and Paris were apoplectic. Bush looked up and said "Good". Went back to his duties.
We're in good hands.
New to FR here. Loved reading today. thanks for the Reagan story.
The whole twin debate is wasting time from all talking about more serious stuff like what arnold brought up. BTW, they were cute if a little immature ( late twenties female here). They, like Laura Bush' comments about watching GW on the phone were real and the lineup was meant put a humnan face on the GW
God bless America; God help NJ ;)Good-nite all
"God bless Ronnie. President Reagan."
C-SPAN showed the Reagan 1980 convention speech, followed by the Carter speech.
The contrast was INCREDIBLE!
Some fun observations of Reagan's speech:
Michael and Ron Prescott were both on stage.
Dubya and Jeb were both on the stage. That was a real hoot.
H.W. was wearing Barry Goldwater type glasses.
Ford looked sad.
H.W. was VERY animated. I didn't remember that.
The Republican crowd was neat and orderly, the Democrats looked like an unwashed mob. (How little things change!)