Actually they crossed paths during a Monday Night Football game, Reagan spent a few minutes explaining the rules of American Football to John.
Right! Reagan could charm anyone, but John Lennon was more complicated than people give him credit for.
He kinda knew he could be a jerk and a belligerent sh*t, and wasn’t proud of it or anything. My own view is I don’t think he had the same opinions about a lot of things in, say, 1979 as he did in 1969.
I remember that, Howard Cosell was shocked.
That’s right. Lennon and Reagan hung out in a box at Monday Night Football and got along great. Go figure. John Lennon said and did a lot of idiotic stuff (e.g., “Imagine”), but he wasn’t stupid and his opinions shifted over time. One of his biographers claimed that by the time of his death in 1980 he often expressed conservative views. A lot of Sean’s comments get retweeted, and frankly, he often sounds like a common-sense conservaive.