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http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=303669First the false quote: "A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work." -- Ronald Reagan in his recently published diaries, May 17, 1986. _________________________ I heard this...

“Married Up” – Kerry’s Blundering Reagan Rip-off As we all know, President Reagan passed away this summer. In the multitude of heartfelt remembrances and eulogies, Brian Mulroney, former Primer Minister of Canada, related this story: President Reagan had spoken to Parliament, handled complex files with skill and good humor -- strongly impressing his Canadian hosts -- and here we were, waiting for our wives. When their car drove in a moment later, out stepped Nancy and Mila -- looking like a million bucks. As they headed towards us, President Reagan beamed, threw his arm around my shoulder and said with...

<p>Only two days after CBS celebrated its 75th anniversary last Sunday with a slick retrospective, the Tiffany Network had to beat a humiliating retreat. Yesterday it announced that it would move a four-hour biographical movie on Ronald and Nancy Reagan that it had planned to air on Nov. 16 to Showtime, its pay-cable sister network. Advertisers had fled the project as evidence mounted that its politicized producers had done a historical hit-and-run.</p>