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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I wasn't going to say anything, but since you mentioned it, here are a few words in memorial from Christopher Hitchens, who is always happy to savage the recently dead:
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[N]othing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
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According to the many Reagan bios I've read, including the not so favorable one by Morris, Hitchy gets it a little wrong. The consensus seems to be that statements like these, while clearly untrue, were not intentional lies because Reagan lived in a sort of make believe world where he actually believed the things he was saying were true.
