When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.
You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
President Clinton, I sang at his post-inauguration party out in Maryland.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.