As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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