I don't act as if anyone "supports my position." That would be argument by testimonial. I am not so silly as that.
There is factual material in the book, many items that are on the record, and the results of many interviews. I have merely cited some of them. Do you deny that Reagan was very... er... absent minded, lol? That he said he saw a scene on a battleship that he never saw? That he liberated a Nazi death camp, when he never did? Do you deny the dozens of evidences that your man was delusional?
I have no reason not to think that Reagan was "incorruptible." In his way. I think, also, that he was "honest." In his way. I believe he had many qualities that were good ones, and have no reason to argue with any of those you quote Morris as saying to Newsweek, though not in his book.
So... what do they have to do with his fabulating, and confusing fantasy with reality, and being an ignoramus, and calling his son "Schmuck," (not too sentimental there) and refusing to wear glasses, according to Zoltan, even though he was SO BLIND without them, he couldn't recognize his own son when shaking his hand?
Do you think a combination of "sentimental and emotional coolness" is good, btw?
There's great and there's great. Reagan was the first, poor thing. |
