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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5292)	4/4/2006 4:33:40 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218649

Elroy, You gotta do better than that. <g> According to the website Reagan purchased the 677 acre ranch in 1974 for $527,000. That is not much money. And you are wrong about the pay Reagan recieved. Remember the Reagan speeches about how he would only make a couple of movies each year because of the high tax bracket he was in? I have a few Reagan bios and all this is in there, about his rates of pay from the movies, GE, royalty income, ect. I will dig it out. Be serious Elroy, for a while back in the 1950's and early 1960's Reagan was a regular fixture on TV. GE Playhouse was very popular. I don't doubt that he received private donations, either. The rules were different back then about the use of political contributions and from 1964 on he had a large following that wanted to see him in the White House. Of course they contributed. But the real proof that he was not some large scale crook is that he didn't die an extremely rich man. He didn't even have the $2 million that he needed to buy his city residence when he left office in 1988. I'm no great Reagan fan either. But I don't think he was any big crook in a personal way. He was not an extremely rich man. Clinton is ALREADY worth way more than Reagan ever was, and Bubba's total net worth was only about $600,000 or so in 1998, or so he claimed. YOu think Clinton's (and all the rest of them, for that matter) stupendous speakers fees are anything but a payoff for "services rendered" while in office? You know, this would have been totally unacceptable a generation ago. My how this country has slipped down the slippery slope in the recent years. Slagle