In honor of the day

[womzilla]

"Jim Cannon hadn't been able to sleep. Now that he faced the blank screen of his computer, he couldn't quite bring himself to write, either. Cannon was still too shaken by why he had learned earlier that weekend while carrying out a confidential mission inside Ronald Reagan's White House.
...
his primary loyalty was to [James] Baker, to whom he felt he owed his unvarnished judgment. So he carefully typed out his first recommendation:
Suggested priorities, March 1, 1987
1. Consider the possibility that section four of 25th Amendment might be applied."

--Jayne Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of a President, 1989

"He's sitting over there [by his desk in the Oval Office] and says, 'Hey Grover Cleveland. I played him in the movies.' I said no, you played Grover Cleveland Alexander, the baseball player. And then I knew the nation was in tough shape from that moment on."

--Tip O'Neill, unknown

Bonzo goes to Bitburg, then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watch it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank at all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy

--"My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", Joey Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Jean Beauvoir, 1985

Comments

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

Michael Korda edited Reagan's autobiography and has some interesting stories about Reagan in his own memoir.