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Originally posted by sgtclub
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.
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That kind of excuse would not have worked for Clinton, and I don't see it as a good thing. I see that as a significant character flaw (though perhaps morally preferable to intentionally lying).
[Unless you're saying that RR's unfortunate illness began to appear 10-15 years before it was announced (which you're not).]
Your statement ties nicely into a column I saw today in the WaPo Metro Section (or all places), to which I will post a link in my next post. I thought that the column explained fairly well (without being nasty) why lots of us folks who did not worship Reagan saw a much more mixed message in his performance, economic policy, etc.
S_A_M
