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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (37464)	3/9/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Jane Mayer is an ideological goof. That is widely known. Her description, though inapt for Reagan, easily fits JFK or FDR, especially when the former was revealed as a sickly drug addict not really interested in or up to the job; and the latter, FDR when he was governing virtually brain-dead - no blood to what was left of his average brain. That never stopped the Dem machine - they'd have run FDR again if they could have dug him up. Then there was Wilson, another virtually dead Dem Prez that governed, if at all, through his wife.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (37464)	3/9/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I think that description of Reagan as a good-guy President-actor is close to the truth. He had a very limited understanding of geo-politics, and relied on others to make decision.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (37464)	3/9/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<said that Reagan was a very reduced presence after the assassination attempt. >> I would guess if I shot you in the lungs you would post less. <<He was the star, not the director. >> Quite the opposite. He was the director and not the star. He made good policy and had is staff carry it out.