>>I think one of the most important comments in that documentary was from his son Ron, who said he was very polite and thoughtful to
everyone, but did not have even one close friend.
Men and women are different. It is rare for men to have close friends. Probably rarer for such a public person. (Think Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Ford and Clinton.) I think it is clear that RR had an unusually close relationship with Nancy, (far greater than any of the above), and that relationship completed him.
I remember when RR was shot and Jimmy Stewart, who was a good if not close friend, said that he wished that he could have taken that bullet for his friend. Just look what happened to Jimmy when his wife died, he became a recluse, shut down and soon died.
I believe that if Nancy died tomorrow, RR would soon follow.
I know that RR had a strong belief in predestination and others saw that in him too. Bette Davis and Robert Wagner are both on record as having had said that RR confided to them well before he ever entered politics that he would become President some day.
CBS commentator Eric Severeid and Irving Berlin both recounted seeing Reagan in the 1940's and remarking, without even knowing who he was, that there was something about him that earmarked him for greatness. |
