Classic Ronald Reagan
May 2, 2007 at 9:22 am
Howard Kurtz has the goods on Ronald Reagan diaries coming out soon in Vanity Fair, compiled by Douglas Brinkley.
This item is great:
The former actor was well aware of his public image, and tweaked the Fourth Estate after he deliberately reversed the order of the opening sentences of his welcome at the 1984 Olympics: “The press having a copy of the lines as written are gleefully tagging me with senility & inability to learn my lines.”
Reminds me of the press savaging Dan Quayle over spelling potato wrong. The same press corps that lives off spellcheck and copy editors. You can just hear them: ”Let’s call him an idiot. Is that spelled with one ‘t” or two?”
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