I'm writing Reagan's obituary here. Help me out.

[WilliamPitt]

All do-gooders who want to feel good about treating him with respect as (if true) he passes can happily pass on to another thread. Respect is earned with truth, and here the truth will be told.

What I have so far:

"No title yet"

“Ronald Reagan is alive but forgetting things.
He's forgotten about sending arms to Iran
for hostages - if he ever knew. If he ever
knew, he's forgotten he knew. He does not
at this time recall. He may have been an
honest man. If not, he is becoming one.”

- Dean Blehert, ‘Lest We Forget’

As the rest of the free world will spend the next several days falling over itself in overwrought praise for our fallen President, Ronald Wilson Reagan, it falls to me in this grim little slice of history to remind you what you need to know about the son of a bitch.

Simply put, everything wrong with the United States of America can be found on, around, or near Ronald Reagan. He was Willy Lowman with a General Electric expense account, and we all got sold out in the end.

...help?...

[yorgatron]

1. "evil fuckwad dies" film at 11

burn in hell asshole...

[Angelus]

2. I couldn't have said it better myself.

[WilliamPitt]

3. *snarf*

[Vitruvius]

81. Link to New York Times OBIT

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/politics/05WIRE-REAGAN.html

And the Devil's no doubt stoking up his blast furnace even as we speak...

[Khephra]

4. Someone where has to be mention him turning on the black list

[WilliamPitt]

5. An early start

[Khephra]

9. Sooo many people forget that period....

I never expect that from you, but...I had to mention in case.........

[freetobegay]

6. Title?

The Forgotten man.

[bluestateguy]

7. We aren't even sure if he's dead yet

I remember one night a few years ago when the Internet was abuzz with much rumor mongering about Reagan and it was all a lie.

This is from Drudge. The same Drudge mind you who pimped stories abuot Kerry having an affair and Clinton fathering a black child. So let's just wait and see.

Also, while making the Freepers mad may not be a concern of ours, I would warn that many people in the Great American Middle--the wishy washy, Macomb County types--still hold Reagan in high regard, and attacking him now will not be helpful to winning them over to our side.

[WilliamPitt]

8. Truth-telling is kinda a full-time gig

Saddam, Osama = Reagan.

Simple as that.

Gotta say it. Alot.

I can't tell you how tired I am of worrying about whether or not I am offending people I've never met. On some days, you just have to tell the truth.

[Wonk]

21. Reagan and the Prevention Of Genocide Act, re: Saddam

http://www.google.com/search?q=prevention+genocide+act+reagan

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/battle.html
(snip)
He was prepared to use his presidential veto to kill the Bill. The House and the Senate haggled over it until Congress adjourned and the Prevention of Genocide Act disappeared.

[DEMVET-USMC]

10. Arrogant asshole dies, who cares ?

[elperromagico]

11. Remember the Mort Sahl joke about Reagan?

"Washington couldn't tell a lie,
Nixon couldn't tell the truth,
and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."

[playahata1]

52. Yeah, man!!!

Heard that joke on Comedy Central's "100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians." Sahl was right on point.

[opihimoimoi]

12. He, like Bush, was a puppet. Killed Patco, the air controller guys

and started the downhill slide of organized labor and the exporting of jobs.

See the Movie Head Company

[Vitruvius]

80. Reagan suckered PATCO into supporting him in the 1980 election,

with both campaign money and votes -- then knifed them in the back & killed them dead after he got in.

[VolcanoJen]

13. How about adding: See: Film: Wall Street.

:D

[KittyWampus]

76. Greed Is Good. That Is Actually Quite Apt.

[Skittles]

14. he cut funding for the very disease he is dying from

he ignored the AIDS crisis

he dumped mentally ill people on the streets

he was a bad actor and a bad president

he made idiocy fashionable

[WilliamPitt]

19. Bingo. Title.

The Fashionable Idiot Falls

[FlemingsGhost]

15. The most diplomatic thing I can say about Reagan:

He played his part well.

[mirandaod]

16. When he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's

No one was surprised. He was showing signs of it as governor of California.

[Disturbed]

17. Reagan

Posted by a DUer some time back:

Here's a Reagan summary:

1. Fiscal irresponsibility. Ran MASSIVE deficits his entire term. We still pay interest on the bonds the government sold to borrow the money. Reagan claimed the tax cuts would generate more income to cover the deficits. It never happened--and is another Repug lie. We'll be paying interest on the $2 trillion of new debt Reagan added forever.

2. Tax burden shifted from wealthy to middle and poorer classes. Reagan cut the rates for the very highest paid, but increased the rates for those at the bottom. Contrary to Repug propaganda, Reagan signed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE in history into law. It boosted the payroll tax significantly on the lower income group.

3. Environmental setbacks. We went from progress in all areas of the environment to a standstill or worse everywhere. We still haven't gotten back on track and Bush* has made the trend very negative.

4. Social safety net for poor gutted. Reagan used the racist "welfare queen" propaganda to get even supposed Democrats to support him on this.

5. Accelerated the collapse of the union movement. Hiring scabs became the norm.

6. Supported many unsavory dictators and thugs. Got caught breaking the law illegally supporting the "Contras" in Nicaragua. The Contras were right wing goons opposed to the Socialist government.

7. Average Americans saw their standard of living decline during Reagan's two terms--in spite of economic growth. Trickle down was a miserable failure then, just like it is today under VacationBoy.

[Enough is Enough]

90. Alzheimer's

Face it, he definitely had it while he was living in the White House. He couldn't recall the Iran-Contra deal... He was a joke & embarrassment to the United States! If you remember correctly, he was not allowed to say anything on his own, he is the one responsible for the TelePrompter.

[htuttle]

18. Old Mother Reagan

Old Mother Reagan
And her crew
Took away
From me and you
I hope she goes far away
She better go far away
Y'know it ain't right
When it's all wrong
This is the Old Mother Reagan
Protest song
Old Mother Reagan
She's so dumb
She's so dangerous
How come...
Old Mother Reagan went to heaven
But at the pearly gates
She was stopped!
-- Violent Femmes, 1987

[FlemingsGhost]

20. An ode to Reagan from Camper Van Beethoven:

Sweethearts
(from the 1988 release, "Keylime Pie")

'Cause he's always living back in Dixon
Stuck in 1949
And we're all sitting by the fountain, at the five and dime
'Cause he's living in some b-movie
The lines they are so clearly drawn
In black and white life is so easy and we're all coming along
on this one


Cause he's on a secret mission
Headquarters just radioed in
He left his baby at the dancehall while the band plays on ...
some sweet song.
And on a mission over China
The lady opens up her arms
The flowers bloom where you have placed them and the lady smiles...
just like mom

Angels wings are icing over
McDonnell-Douglas... Olive drab
They bear the names of our sweethearts and the captain smiles
as we crash

Cause in the mind of Ronald Reagan
Wheels they turn, gears they grind
Buildings collapse in slow motion, and trains collide
Everything is fine
Everything is fine
Everything is fine

[lostnfound]

48. Love those Femmes!!! 'Blind leading the naked' came with

money-back guarantee.

[Zorra]

22. Wow. 30 members of Reagan's administration did time in prison.

That has to be a record.

Despite his frequent pronouncements that he advocated smaller and less intrusive government, Federal spending and bureaucracy increased in size during his administration; his increases in military and "drug war" spending were far larger than his cuts in social spending.
Reagan's most infamous foreign policy decision was in illegally financing a civil war of the Contra guerrillas against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The civil war claimed over 15,000 lives, according to former CIA agent David MacMichael. Reagan's determination to continue support for the Contras despite opposition in Congress led to the worst scandal of his presidency, the Iran-Contra Affair.
Reagan was regarded by some critics as indifferent to the needs of poor and minority citizens.
Although considered personally honest by most Americans, there were multiple scandals of bribery, corruption, and influence peddling involving Reagan's aides and subordinates, resulting in some 30 members of his administration spending time in prison.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/r/ro/ronald_reagan.html

[Bozita]

59. Don't forget the ones who were pardoned

[msmcghee]

69. Yeah, most of them . .

. . are running our government now.

[leftyandproud]

23. k

k

[FlemingsGhost]

24. If they make it a Republican wank-fest, all bets are off...

Paul Wellstone.

(on edit: replied to wrong thread. Intended to answer "Zorra." )

[nofurylike]

25. great contribution!

i was just going when i saw this thread. i wish i'd seen it sooner.

i will contribute later, if it's still here.

thank you for putting such a creative direction to the anguish.


peace ALL

[I thought so.]

26. Roslyn Carter said...

Something like he made bigotry normal. Sorry,beered up here,but that is the essence of what she ment. Its worth a search.

[leftofthedial]

27. I saw Richard Belzer performing at a comedy club in New York

the day before Nixon died. News headlines were "Nixon Near Death" and shit at the time.

Belzer said he had to get it out one last time while the prick was still alive. He then spent nearly two hours reaming Nixon for everything--His early career as a crooked car salesman/politician, the Checkers Speech, the TV flop sweat, Viet Nam, Watergate - - the whole bit. It was great.

Interestingly, Bill Maher was there that night too, though not performing.

I hope somewhere tonight, someone besides us DUers are letting this evil asshole have it too. I hope every one of the tens of thousands he murdered in Latin America is exacting a full measure of revenge now.

[Outward Bound]

28. Good luck, Bro...

"The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward." --Edward Abbey

"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns." --Edward Abbey

[Kanary]

41. Hi Outward Bound!

Welcome to DU!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

:toast:

Kanary

[FizzFuzz]

42. literary truth telling...only reward..love of beautiful girls

Where does that leave Molly Ivins and Arianna Huffington?

[lebkuchen]

29. Reagan: Image over substance, fantasy over fact, reaction over reason,

greed over grace, and the simultaneous dismantling of the American traditions of honesty, fairness, justice and peace.

Quoted from the Ronald Reagan Countdown Calendar, January 1988-1989. And so, the final countdown begins.

June 5, 1988: Day 229, before Reagan leaves WH

'81 Ernest Lefever withdraws as human rights nominee after telling senators that USSR is "greatest violator of human rights" and refusing to name other guilty nations.

'87 Albert Hakim testifies that Ricahard Secord twice told Iranian officials that US would "fight the Russians in Iran" in case of invasion. First he calls remark a "bargaining method," then says it "represented the attitude of the entire delegation." 8/28

[Khephra]

30. "He was good with animals."

[Nlighten1]

31. And now he wears depends.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. Iran-Contra affair.

Trading arms for hostages. Nicaraguan Contras.

On edit: "He was a lousy movie actor and he'll make a lousy president" -- my mother, 1980.

[Athletic Grrl]

86. "He fucked up California,

and he'll fuck up the nation, only more."

MY mother, 1980

Great moms think alike. :toast:

I think I'm going to strike up a round of California Uber Alles, the Reagan version, now.

[marzipanni]

88. Yes, that's the truth

When my husband went to the California public schools 1958-70 they were ranked very close to the top in the U.S.. Governor Reagan saw to it that the downward spiral began, and now my son goes to California schools ranked about 48th-49th in the country.


And for years San Francisco has had people wallowing on the sidewalks,or in doorways, drunk, drugged and/or dying. C'mon, can't we do better than this?

Repuke refrain: HUH?!... I got mine!

[Guava Jelly]

33. he lies an empty vessel

who claimed that ketchup was a vegtable

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

34. Everything he stood for I'm against

no tears shed here

[spanone]

35. Reagan legacy = Oliver North

[Mika]

36. Don't forget his reign in California

Busting unions, murdering Panthers.. etc etc etc

[Q]

37. I suppose it was bound to happen...

...but do WE have to help keep Reagan's name front and center instead of the dozens of Bush* scandals that need to be discussed in the absence of a free press?

- Meanwhile...the UN is calling the 'abuses' in Iraq and other places 'War Crimes'.

[playahata1]

54. Reagan is the reason for all the bullshit that is going on now.

Once Ronnie passes on, heaven help us, because THEN it will be "All Reagan, all the time." Will -- and hopefully there are others out there who are doing the same -- is doing something to counteract the coming deification and multiple Reagasms.

In other words, if you think it's bad now....

[Cooley Hurd]

38. The Great Communicator who ended the Cold War...

...ridding the earth of the evil Red Menace.

Wait, I haven't taken my Vicodin this morning...

(*pop!* *gurgle-gurgle!*)

Okay, where was I? Oh yeah... He was an addled-brained, union-busting mean old sonofabitch who treated his horses with more care than he viewed the average American citizen.

Guten Morgen, all! :hi:

[dogman]

39. Reagan lowered the bar.

He proved an idiot ideologue could be President.

[AntiCoup2K4]

49. And the scary thing is...

...he looked like a Rhodes Scholar compared to the current idiot ideologue occupant of the White House :silly:

[frank frankly]

40. don't forget his war record

i don't think he had one.

but he made MOVIES about war.

:shrug:

[Vitruvius]

45. Reagan didn't pay his taxes during WWII,

then turned against "big government" when the IRS caught him after the war and made him pay up.

Other people gave their lives while Reagan made training films in Hollywood, but Reagan was furious that he even had to pay his taxes. In wartime. Typical Rethug 'patriotism'.

It's all in Reagan's rather embarrassing autobiography, entitled "Where's the Rest of Me?". The self-serving rationalizations, the greed, the sense of entitlement, and the way he was showered with subsidies (i.e. welfare) from big business and the rich after he sold out is amazing. It's well worth a read.

Note that the book was written just before he ran for Governor of California -- but it describes the bought-and-paid-for corporate shill he was and remained for all his life.

[FizzFuzz]

43. He ushered in the age of leadership by media spin?

I saw a brief "poll" result somewhere recently (like on some crap pop-up excuse to pull people in to a spammy website, or something) that listed America's choices for the 4 best Presidents ever.

Lincoln
FDR
JFK
Reagan.

I literally choked with anger and disgust when I saw that.

[AntiCoup2K4]

50. Obviously, the Freeps have been there

Hell, I'm surprised Junior's not ranked #1.

[drdigi420]

51. ya, popups suck

especially pop-behinds

an instant way to make absolutely sure that i won't click the link

its sad that anyone falls for this type of advertising

of course, lots of people fall for the con of religion too

[Kanary]

44. He caused *thousands* of deaths right here in the USA

by cutting off so many from the only means of support they had.

Somehow, that is STILL forgotten, and only the ones south of us remembered.

I had two friends who were on the "front lines" of this battle -- one a social worker, one a paralegal with Legal Aid. They would tell me that every day they'd go into work, wondering which ones of their clients they would find out that day had killed themselves. There was *nothing* they could do to restore benefits that the Evil One cut. NOTHING. All they could do was wait for the news of each one who ended their lives in desparation.

Nothing of this was in the "news", except one small item buried in the back pages. To this day, most people in this nation, including "liberals", still don't understand the magnitude of the deaths, or even believe it. I've done searches, trying to document this time of loss, but have not succeeded. It would be GREAT if someone could finally dig up some verification of this horrible time of grief. We know of the grief in Central America, but not right here in our own country.

It's too much to hope for, but it would be a step in the right direction if those who died because of The Evil ONe could at least be remembered briefly, rather than all the remembering of The Evil ONe himself.

Kanary

[nofurylike]

67. yes. n/t

[bikebloke]

46. The simple version: Good riddance

Fortunately, I spent most of that regime period out of the country. Unfortunately, his henchmen are part of the current regime.

[cmd]

47. He was a family man...the whole family had to go to work

to make ends meet.

[GOPisEvil]

53. The King of "Borrow and Spend" Philosophy Dies.

I don't get to say this often, but George H. W. Bush was right. It IS voodoo economics.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

55. Here are some links for you...lots of good information here...

Lost History: Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost7.html>

Reagan-Bush Security Breaches
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/022301a.html>

Ronald Reagan’s Last Secret
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/112599a.html>

Reagan & Guatemala’s Death Files
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/052699a1.html>

Secret FBI files reveal covert activities at UC
Bureau's campus operations involved Reagan, CIA
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/09/MNCFLEADIN.DTL>

Bush like Reagan--No No NoPlease
<http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=8998>

Pictorial History of Ronald Reagan
<http://victorian.fortunecity.com/manet/404/g/rr1.htm>

[bobthedrummer]

56. He is majorly responsible for putting weapons and mind control systems

in space.

The third question in the Defense Issues portion of the Republican Party Census Document Questionnaire is "Should we build President Reagan's SDI defense shield against nuclear missile attack?"

Starwars, Star Trek and Killing Politely bt Dr. Nick Begich
http://www.adacomp.net/~mcherney/starwars.html

[lostnfound]

57. What matters more than his forgetting is our own.

Whether lessons forgotten or lessons never learned, as a people we do not learn from our mistakes. With Reagan we bought the idea that government should become a private enterprise, run 'more like a business' -- until today, when 'the public sector' is no longer recognizable. Proxy wars against populist Latin American movements in the 80s? Today we have the Colombia Plan, and happy support for the rich 'opposition' in Venezuela, and Haiti. Many of the same men, like Otto Reich and John Negroponte, were resurrected from disgrace to continue the bloodletting.

Gore Vidal calls us the "United States of Amnesia"
(although he recently said we were on our way to a lobotomy).

[Kahuna]

63. Also had a very corrupt administration. Record firings and dismissals..

for misconduct in his administration..

[Wonk]

58. kick

[kentuck]

60. Peggy Noonan will probably write his obit...

As the great leader, with his heart-warming smile, has gone home to the shining city on the hill.....etc...etc..

[Kahuna]

61. Set back race relations 40 years giving a wink and nod that...

he would not enforce affirmative action programs.

Was against making Martin Luther Kind day a national holiday.

Abandoned the homeless, the mentally ill, drug addicts needing treatment programs, research for AIDS. Nice guy..... NOT!

[David Zephyr]

62. Untold Human Death And Suffering: AIDS and El Salvador

There's no way that any obituary about Ronald Reagan can merit credibility without mentioning the suffering and death that were a direct result of his "leadership" of the U.S. for eight years.

An obituary without mentioning his shameful and unforgivable reaction to the advent of AIDS or his death squads in Central America would be nothing less than a walk down Amnesia Lane.

[Zomby Woof]

64. feel free to peruse

This is my extemporaneous obit here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1725938

[Snellius]

65. "If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."

Proud to have booed you to your face, Ronnie.

[LibertyorDeath]

66. Here you go...Good Luck

http://liberalslikechrist.org/a-JesusNoRepublican/reagan.html

Ronald Reagan's Criminal Administration:

Ronald Reagan's Cabinet

"By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

[Dees]

68. Reagan deserves the compassion of sympathy in equal

amounts that he dished out for the homeless, mentally challenged, the environment, public school children, welfare recipients and on and on.

[neuvocat]

70. Here's an article I wrote a long time ago

in two parts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/05/11_reagan.html

Part two

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/06/26_reagan.html

[nofurylike]

71. thank you, WilliamPitt, for this bit of justice.

people cannot come near the truth of this...person. it is a compliment, really, to those here who simply cannot possibly imagine the kind of philosophy, worldview he had.

but so many are recalling so much of what MUST NOT be allowed to fade from our memories.

thank you for giving us this much-needed hint of healing.


peace

peace all

[jeanmarc]

72. WillPitt, here's a great reference!

One of the best articles written on Reagan:

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/02/22/cover-washburn.php

Pulls no punches. All the rest, enjoy!

[keithyboy]

73. Some things to remember

Challenger deaths (for a photo/radio op), Marines killed in Beruit, arms for hostages, drugs in LA, delays in AIDS research, historic deficits, historic interest rates, historic inflation, arming Saddam. What a legacy!

[starroute]

74. So much went terribly wrong in the 80's

I never have sorted out just how much of it was Reagan's direct responsibility and how much was part of the general climate of unpleasantness. But the decade was marked by:

Deregulation and privatization. Greed-is-good mentality on Wall Street and elsewhere.

The whole complex of banking-related unsavoriness: BCCI (peak 1986-90), the Nugan Hand Bank, CIA drug-running and money-laundering, the savings and loan scandal.

Rise of the religious right (esp. 1982-86). Christian Reconstructionism/Dominionism. Reagan administration lends legitimacy to end-times nut-cults (James Watt.)

Worldwise wave of tyranny and repression. Latin America. Apartheid South Africa. First Intifada. Marcos in the Philippines.


Also, there are excellent arguments that Reagan was not responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union. The Poles and the Afghans both had far more to do with it than he did.

[starroute]

75. Reagan as governor of California

A part of history I'm not strong on -- but he was governor there in the late 1960's and was widely despised for how he handled the anti-war protestors. Does anybody remember the details?

[charlie]

77. First president that I know of

who admitted his belief that Biblical Armageddon was nigh (which made his brinksmanship with the Soviets all the scarier). Also was the first to appoint a like-minded fundie nutcase to his cabinet (James Watt), whose policy was predicated on that belief -- sell, drill, clearcut all you want, this crap won't be around for us to enjoy much longer anyway!

[charlie]

78. Dupe

*deleted*

[GoneOffShore]

79. Leading Light of the Screen Actors Guild

So, when exactly did he drink the Republican KoolAid?
He's still on the SAG site as being one of the past presidents (Ronald Reagan
1947-1952, 1959-1960). He's right underneath the infamous George Murphy, who went on to being a Repuke California senator.
http://www.sag.org/sagWebApp/application?origin=multipage_template.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Hidden&cp=Inside+SAG&templateType=multipage&portletTitle=SAG+History&contentType=SAG+History&contentUrl=/Content/Public/History_Guild_Presidents.htm&idx=2
If the link doesn't work,(And it might not considering the length of the link) just go to sag.org and then look for the links to the history page.
Maybe those martinis at the Brown Derby addled what little brain he had.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

82. The mother fucker dealt with terrorists

both in 1980 before the election (Bush's gang), and later in the Iran/Contra bullshit extraordinaire.
The jerk did the worst job possible for us now in the future WOT.

[mulsh]

83. 32 administration officials convicted

2, poindexter and abrams overturned on technicalities.
29 felons, great record there dutch
the greatest number of administration members ever convicted. (clinton admin had 1 member convicted for S&L crime commited during the reagan years.)

[Stephanie]

84. Today's World AIDS Crisis lies at the feet of Reagan

He's personally responsible.

For those who don't remember, see this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1726973

[bobbieinok]

85. 1st campaign speech at Philadelphia MS

Reagan was supposed to give 1st speech to the Urban League (black organization) convention in NYC.

Trent Lott, a repub member of the House, suggested he speak in MS - he might win the state

Philadelphia MS was where three civil rights workers - Goodwin, Cheney, Schwerner - were arrested by police and turned over to KKK and murdered - during MS Summer (also known as Freedom Summer) in 1964 - when mostly white college kids from outside the south went to MS to help with voter registration and voter education....the murders so angered LBJ that he forced thru the senate the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Reagan's speech was something on the order of 'I will do everything in my power to return to the states matters which belong to the states' - clear message: "states' rights" will conquer black civil rights in my administration

this to me is THE message of Reagan and the 'modern' repug party - making this statement in the same town where three civil rights workers were murdered leading to Civil Rights Act sent/sends a clear message about their lack of any concern for civil rights

[NNadir]

87. It's a little late for the Obit. He's been dead for years.

I think they're taking him out of the freezer because Bush's campaign is in trouble.

I think an obit could be very succinct. Simply state, "In honor of Ronald Reagan I forget what I was going to say..."

[bobbieinok]

89. kick

[Mr. Brown of MD]

91. As a minor edit

Assuming Willy Loman refers to the Death of a Salesman character, at least... it is actually spelled Loman. A play on words of "low man" but not so obviously spelled like so.

I was born during the first Reagan administration and was five when he left office, so I'm afraid I don't have much else to offer.

-CollegeDude
Popping in per normal with random, trivial fact checks

[bigtree]

92. "Accidents Will Happen" (1938)

The accidents in Reagan's third role refer to the plot involving insurance scams. The inset photo shows insurance adjustor Reagan snuggling cigar stand girl Gloria Blondell (Joan Blondell's sister). They conspire to go undercover and solve the phony racket. And they live happily every after, of course.



"Voice of the Turtle" (1947)


"Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951)