Behind the pompadour and rosy cheeks, there was a massive, massive intellect. One that has never gone appreciated as fully as it deserves to be by the major news media, academia etc.
Well worth the twenty-one bucks admission price.
Wow, very cool. I hope to go there someday.
“If you get up earlier in the morning than your neighbor — work harder — scheme more & stick to the job more closer — stay up later planning to get ahead — you’ll leave more money when you die & you’ll leave it a lot sooner.”
RONALD REAGAN
It isn’t that they didn’t appreciate or could appreciate Reagan’s intellect.
They simply weren’t interested. They wanted to paint him a certain way, as an “amiable dunce” at best, and an evil, bigoted, tyrannical overlord at worst. That fit their agenda.
Reagan was excellent at delegating, and made sure he knew enough of the salient facts on something to delegate effectively and keep tabs on it after the fact.
Liberals, who worship policy wonk eggheads who know everything (or purport to, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) interpreted Reagan’s approach as stupidity, laziness, simplemindedness, you name it.
That is why liberals should never, ever be allowed near the levers of power on anything. If it is a war, they will lose it. If it is an industry, they will destroy it. If it is an economy, they will devastate it.
Isn’t the Library an almost spiritual place? For eight years our back yard bordered the Library property. We’d walk up sometimes just to experience the atmosphere. (Walking downhill back home was easier!)