To: tsmith130
I have to be honest here, I still remember his response after Reagan’s assasination. I was just a kid, having cast my first-ever vote for president.
It was a head-scratcher, his response. I can picture it like it was yesterday (with visions of my high school history teacher pounding both my brain cells with a line of succession quizzes to follow!)
27 posted on
02/20/2010 6:32:25 AM PST by
Daisyjane69
(Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
To: Daisyjane69
The link posted contains the quote:
Hours after the shooting, then-Secretary of State Haig went before the cameras intending, he said later, to reassure Americans that the White House was functioning.
"As of now, I am in control here in the White House, pending the return of the vice president," Haig said.
Somehow that last bit is never quoted.
To: Daisyjane69
Reagan’s assasination attempt...he wasn’t successful
33 posted on
02/20/2010 6:35:43 AM PST by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: Daisyjane69; Vaquero
He was talking about at the White house, not the nation. The press took it the way they wanted to and ran with it.
34 posted on
02/20/2010 6:36:35 AM PST by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN.....................a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
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