My Lunch With Reagan by Michael Kinsley Post date 06.29.07 | Issue date 07.02.07
On 9/2/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [a friend writes...]
>
> Reagan on Bush II (tragic, but funny)
>
> In case you haven't read yet the Ronald Reagan diaries, the following
> entry for May 17, 1986 includes the following:
>
> "A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne'er-do-well son
> around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the
> political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all
> the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40
> and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New
> Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or
> something. That looks like easy work."
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