Posted on 04/26/2005 10:26:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Ronald Reagan kept a diary -- handwritten, blue-inked reflections and observations of nearly every day of his eight years in the White House -- and now it will be published, executives of HarperCollins and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation announced yesterday.
The existence of the five leather-bound volumes embossed with a gold presidential seal was not a secret. Key entries were quoted in the press during the investigation into the Iran-contra arms sale controversy in the mid-1980s: "I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran" -- Jan. 17, 1986. Reagan drew on the diary for his 1990 memoir, "An American Life: The Autobiography," and certain scholars have had access to it over the years.
But very few people have seen most of it. And in an investigative era when written introspections have a way of becoming public -- President Bush recently told journalists that for that reason he declines to send e-mail, even to his daughters -- it may be the first and last contemporaneous daily glimpse of a presidency through the eyes of the president himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Unlikely. Consider how long these books have been out:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Kiron%20K.%20Skinner/102-0442695-2131315
The leftists pretend that they don't exist.
Got a point. Oh well, too much to hope. :)
This will be on the top of the Best Seller list for a long time!
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