--- cgrimes at rawbw.com wrote:
"Reagan's nice guy facade characterized this particular scene with its pretense of being clean and honest---while being mean to the bone and rotten to the core---just as Nixon captured the sleazy underside. I used to think of Nixon as one of those car sales guys that played on local LA 50s tv."
(BW)The people around Reagan (as Pres) were every bit as sleezy as Nixon's. Only Reagan seemed to understand he was only acting a part, while Nixon felt history was actually being made by him.
California has produced so many improbable Republican politicians in my life (George Murphy, Hayakawa, Pete Wilson, the Terminator) I'm always amazed we're considered a democratic state.
Bob
> ``... We must have been there about the same
> time. I went to LA High in 1956-7, and hung out
> with "Dusty" Hoffman,
> who was then a mousey looking Jewish outsider like
> me, who just wanted
> a date. We lived in ParkLabrea, where Sally
> Kellerman (Hot Lips
> Houlihan, later on) hung around the playground, a
> big horsey girl, who
> also just wanted a date!...'' BobW
>
> --------
>
> Thanks to BobW and Dennis Claxton. I enjoy writing
> and thinking about
> LA. By the time I was in high school I was going to
> Reseda High 58-60,
> then a last year in Granada Hills. Hence all the
> dates were driving
> back to the city. We had gone from desperate
> straights to upper
> middle class with the new, rich stepfather.
>
> Anyway there was something about growing up in the
> city and then
> moving to suburbs late that positioned me to
> directly feel the effects
> of white flight in a way that was unexpected. I
> disliked the Valley.
> The richer my parents got the more I disliked the
> kids I met at
> school.
>
> When I was reading background on the current
> neo-cons, where they went
> to school and so forth I recognized them as probably
> part of a similar
> sort of high school to college set. Supposedly
> bright with at least
> upper middle class professional families and very
> probably no contact
> at all with the motley collection of kids and people
> who filled the
> urban sprawl.
>
> Reagan's nice guy facade characterized this
> particular scene with its
> pretense of being clean and honest---while being
> mean to the bone and
> rotten to the core---just as Nixon captured the
> sleazy underside. I
> used to think of Nixon as one of those car sales
> guys that played on
> local LA 50s tv.
>
> CG
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