Ronald Reagan's White House Diaries to Be Published

NewsMax ^ | 4/26/05 | AP

[wagglebee]

Ronald Reagan's handwritten diaries of his eight years in the White House will be published as a book to be released next year, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation and HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday.

Reagan, who died at 93 last June following a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease, wrote in his diaries every day of his presidency, recording his thoughts on events both routine and historic, officials said.

While the volumes "were not initially intended for publication, we feel that these volumes offer an unprecedented insight into the Reagan Presidency," said Frederick Ryan Jr., chairman of the foundation's board of trustees.

Tim Duggan, executive editor at HarperCollins, will be the editor on the project.

[wagglebee]

Reagan, who died at 93 last June following a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease, wrote in his diaries every day of his presidency, recording his thoughts on events both routine and historic, officials said.

But I thought all Reagan did was eat jelly beans, sleep and dream about starting nuclear armageddon./sarcasm off

[SevenofNine]

OHH MANNNN rack itttt

I wouldn't mind reading Ronnie thoughts

[SevenofNine]

OHH MANNNN rack itttt

I wouldn't mind reading Ronnie thoughts

[SevenofNine]

OHH MANNNN rack itttt

I wouldn't mind reading Ronnie thoughts

[pissant]

I, for one, will purchase it! BTW, the Reagan library is a magnificent monument to the best president since TR!!!

[wagglebee]

BTW, the Reagan library is a magnificent monument to the best president since TR!!!

BTW, the Reagan library is a magnificent monument to the best president since TR in American history!!!!

There, I corrected it.

[Pompah]

I look forward to the release of the "Reagan Diaries".

I have just the spot on my Reagan Shelf. There is a slot
where I threw out the dud published as "Dutch".

[IndyTiger]

Sounds like some good reading to me!

[pissant]

I have a short list of great presidents. Reagan is on it, but they are all to good to rank 1,2,3, etc, IMO.

[wagglebee]

I'd go with (in chronological order) Washington, Jefferson (though probably more as the author of the Declaration of Independence than as president), Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, and Reagan. . . . GWB can make the list, but only if he gets his act together on the showdown with Congress.

[pissant]

I'd add Adams, Old Hickory, and Coolidge...

[theDentist]

Wow. Get ready for the onslaughtof vitriol from liberal "journalists" and the inevitable comparisons to Herr Klinton's work of fiction.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Reagan, who died at 93 last June . . . wrote in his diaries every day of his presidency, recording his thoughts on events both routine and historic, officials said.

Wow. This is on top of all those radio scripts in Reagan In His Own Hand. That book said that Reagan was in the very first rank of presidents for the volume of written material he authored.

He wrote his own speeches up until he became president - and then he had too many other responsibilities, and just too many speeches to give, to be able to do them justice writing them himself.

That's the kind of person that liberals can call, "an amiable dunce!!"

[wagglebee]

Funny, but he doesn't look like an "amiable dunce"