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  • Sheryl McCarthy: The president's son is worthy of the limelight

    07/15/2004 9:05:30 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 27 replies · 1,172+ views
    New York Newsday ^ | July 15, 2004 | Sheryl McCarthy
    With all the stories about the newly graduated Bush twins posing for fashion spreads and hitting the campaign trail with their father, I must say a few words about another president's child who seems to have grown up well: Ron Reagan. Granted, at 46, Reagan is more than twice the age of the Bush twins, and his father left office more than 15 years ago. But Reagan also seems to have finally come into his own. The beginnings were not auspicious. Twenty-two when his father took office in 1981, Ron Reagan was a lanky, awkward-looking ballet dancer, one of the...
  • The Son Also Rises (Q&A with Ron Reagan)

    06/27/2004 5:13:24 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 57 replies · 599+ views
    The New York Times Magazine ^ | 06/27/04 | DEBORAH SOLOMON
    Q-Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States? I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept. What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president? I would question his sanity. Do you ever go to church? No. I visit my wife's sangha. So you sometimes practice Buddhism? I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire the fact that the central...