RONALD REAGAN

THE NEWS THIS WEEK SAW COMMENTS MADE ABOUT BARACK OBAMA BEING PAID $400,000 BY CANTOR FITZGERALD FOR A SPEECH. HILLARY CLINTON AND RUDY GIULIANI MADE TENS OF MILLIONS ON THE SPEAKING TRAIL. WHY ANYONE WOULD PAY GIULIANI ONE CENT ASTOUNDS ME. HE WAS THE IDIOT THAT DEMANDED THAT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS WOULD HOUSE THE PHONE SYSTEMS FOR POLICE AND FIRE FIGHTERS COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER. MASSIVE MURDER WAS THE RESULT AS THE TOWERS FELL TAKING DOWN THE PHONE SYSTEMS. AND NOW WE COME TO RONALD REAGAN. WHEN HE STARTED ON HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES HE VISITED WAS IN THE SOUTH WHERE CHANEY, GOODMAN, AND SCHWERNER, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MINE, WERE MURDERED. THE VISIT WAS TO BE INTERPRETED AS SOUTHERN RULES WERE OK. DON’T ASSUME THIS MEANT REAGAN WAS A RACIST. HE WASN’T, AND POLITICS IS POLITICS. REAGAN, ONCE ELECTED, STARTED OUT AS A DISASTER. I REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE LABELING HIM AN “AMIABLE FOOL”. HE WAS HOWEVER LUCKY TO HAVE NANCY FOR HIS WIFE AND GEORGE SCHULTZ REPLACING ALEXANDER HAIG. NANCY THEN INSTIGATED A LUNCHEON REGIMEN WHERE REAGAN AND SCHULTZ WOULD MEET FOR LUNCH ONCE EACH WEEK WITH NO ONE ELSE IN THE ROOM. BUT IT ALSO MUST BE SAID, HIS MENTAL HEALTH WAS IN DECLINE AS HE AGED. A MARRIED ENGLISH COUPLE, WHO LIVED IN LOS ANGELES, ONCE TOLD ME THAT AT SOME FUNCTION THEY WERE AT, REAGAN WAS ALONE IN A LOBBY WITH SOME MILITARY PERSONAL ON DUTY, AND REAGAN SAID TO MY FRIENDS THAT HE WAS WAITING TO BE TOLD WHERE TO GO. TIME MARCHES ON. REAGAN AND GORBACHEV MEET TO DISCUSS HOW NUCLEAR POWER IS TO BE USED. REAGAN OFFERS THE IDEA THAT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SHOULD BE OUTLAWED. BUT THE GENII IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE. COUNTRIES WITH MONEY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY MONEY, ENERGY, AND URANIUM ENTER INTO THE RACE TO MANUFACTURE NUCLEAR BOMBS. REAGAN FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT FOR HIS BELIEF. BUT THE WORLD DID NOT TRUST THAT ALL NATIONS WOULD STAND DOWN ON THE PRODUCTION OF ATOMIC BOMBS. REALLY SILLY TO THINK THAT WOULD HAPPEN.