[lbo-talk] RR on W

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 2 09:35:27 PDT 2007


Damn, you can't even trust a professor of political science these days.

On Sep 2, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote:


> This is not from RR's diary. It was published as a joke/parody in The
> New Republic[an] ...see
>
> 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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