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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (58463)	10/11/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<<Waiting for you to retract your lie about Reagan sleeping with his wife each night during the war.>>> I did not lie, as you know. That is simply more of your trademark bad manners. But I was in error in my statement that he slept with his wife each night, and acknowledged that in two posts. As I have posted, the painful, love-starved truth of the matter is that he only slept at home with his wife on weekends, at their apartment a few miles down the road from Fort Wacky in Culver City. (Well, during the filming of This is the Army, he did sleep with her every night.) And as I said in one of the posts acknowledging my error on this matter of whether Ron got to do Jane seven nights a week or only two or three plus nooners, Reagan wrote of this period that what he missed was "no more boots and breaches." What he missed was horseback riding. Zoltan, did you happen to see the interview with Ron, Jr. on Sixty Minutes last night? He said some very nice, favorable, loving things about his father. He thought he was courageous and strong and knew right from wrong. He said that Morris's book was "as accurate a portrait as you can make of this very strange fellow," and that the book was "as fair as anybody has ever been to my father," and "It all rings true, at least to me." BTW, did you miss this, from one of my earlier posts? Those who write the history books to which you refer, historians, are already beginning the assessment!: From William E. Pemberton's Exit With Honor, 1997 "Reagan's puzzling legacy will be hotly debated by historians and other analysts. In a recent survey, historians ranked Reagan as a below-average president...." (I had unbookmarked feelies, and here I am again!)

To: Zoltan! who wrote (58463)	10/11/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

P.S. Don't forget the Intelligence citation! Do make it one that isn't his own claim, okay? I'm sure you can understand why that is. And the example of another person whose politics makes causes them to describe Christopher Lehmann-Haupt as "an extreme leftist ideologue"? Thanks. I found this. First para Pemberton's, second mine. You must have missed it. "Reagan and Wyman became propaganda commodities themselves... Hollywood's "perfect couple" became part of the war effort, with Reagan portrayed as patriotically giving up his career to serve his country, while Wyman... stoically endured her fear that her loved one was in danger. During the war... fan magazine coverage, by writers loyally overlooking the fact that Reagan was working a few miles from home, was virtually unmatched in film history." I can see how easy it was for him to continue the myth of having given up his career to serve his country to, as you put it, "steal the glory from actual combatants." He saw himself portrayed month after month after month, in the movie mags, as a soldier separated, "in common with" millions of others, painfully, tragically, separated, from long-suffering Jane and little Maureen. And with that uneasy grasp on the truth we know about, from George Schultz and many others, he was surely convinced, in his way, to give him the benefit of the doubt, that it would be a great relief to, after a long separation (sometimes 5 days can seem an eternity!) from his wife, to finally be able to take her in his lonely arms again.