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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re:reagan
> Haven't read Morris, but I thought his basic take was that Reagan actually
> wasn't human, that he had no center.
> Carl
More complex than that. R's fam life early on wasn't happy, and he sought to fill whatever emptiness he felt by embracing and espousing the simplest narratives. R was a born actor, a good one, and once Holmes Tuttle and other reactionary millionaires got hold of him, he was destined for the greatest role that exists in the US (to most anyway -- me, it's Fed Chairman).
DP
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