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To: LindyBill who wrote (51723)	6/26/2004 3:43:24 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793955

I think the Dems are in pretty bad shape when they have to depend on Michael Moore for intellectual leadership. Did you read Brooks' column about his overseas statements? I think the only population segment that considers Moore as an intellectual leader of the Dems are those right wing Reps who wish to take advantage of things. Moore made an interesting film; at least that's what folk tell me. I'm hoping to see it this weekend. He's hardly ready to be canonized for "intellectual leadership." As for Brooks, I've quit reading him. Just too boring. I read Safire and Novak to get my right wing outrage pills.

To: LindyBill who wrote (51723)	6/26/2004 4:52:47 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Respond to of 793955

From Edmund Morris's essay "The Unknowable" in The New Yorker, June 28, 2004. Morris became Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer in 1985 and published Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. From his New Yorker article: We became so positive a society under Ronald Reagan that we forget how low our national morale had sunk before he raised his right hand on January 20, 1981, and, by plain force of character, reinvested the Presidency with authority and dignity. In recent years, we have seen the office belittled again, but that is the way with democracy and its cycles: big men are followed by small; power gives way to dereliction. The Republic survives, and for as long as it survives I think Reagan will be remembered, with Truman and Jackson, as one of the great populist Presidents, an instinctual leader who, in body and mind, represented the better temper of his times.