Finally getting the full story on that "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall..."
Posted on 06/16/2015 8:16:30 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
President Ronald Reagan carried a handgun with him at all times during his years in office, author Brad Meltzer writes in the New York Daily News.
Meltzer says he was doing research for his latest thriller "The President's Shadow," and wanted to talk to Secret Service agents about how the president lives.
At Secret Service headquarters he was taken to a small museum area where he saw such items as a newspaper marking John F. Kennedy's assassination and the actual door from the limousine Reagan was getting into when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr.
"It was an eerie keepsake for sure," Meltzer writes. "But not nearly as eerie as the next detail they told me. We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was president, he carried his own gun."
Reagan carried the .38-caliber in his briefcase, and even took it onto Air Force One, Meltzer was told.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
A real man and a real president.
Carrying a gun is always smart IMHO-—but it’s not much use against an ambush from a third story window.
Finally getting the full story on that "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall..."
My goodness how this country misses the late great President Ronald W. Reagan.
I’m surprised it took this long to to come out.
Just after his death, there was a billboard in San Diego that showed President Reagan and it was captioned:
"Now, there was a Man"
Now I love him more.
Next they’ll be telling us he carried a Bible!
You got that right...Bush, Clinton, Bush and that friggen ManChile......
Nobody comes close to the Gipper.
The SS keeps a museum of their failures?................
Interesting fact, Reagan was born left handed but was taught in school to do things right handed, though he still shot left handed.
I heard a bluegrass musician talking once about going to the White House and meeting Nixon, at the moment they were shaking hands, he remembered he(the musician) had a pistol under his coat, which he always carried for self protection...
Times have changed a bit, eh?
Love how the second picture shows that a good rifle can lead to a great smile.
booger hook off bangswitch
I hear that before he was “packin” when he was a movie star
HA HA yeah good photo LOL! now I understand communism fells in Eastern Europe
I have a 1982 issue of American Rifleman with Reagan on the cover. To think that that would have taken place even in my lifetime without really any eyebrows raised over something like that.
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