Ike was another Reagan type in that he never really felt the need to come on as an intellect and yet understood people and had an almost uncanny ability to get others to do things they thought was their own idea. Takes a pretty stable ego and a lot of self-confidence to pull that off.
I think Clinton would be terrifically interesting guy to hang out with. Either Bush is probably a better person, but I don't think W and I would have a lot to say to each other, while I think I could spend days talking with Clinton, Gore or Obama. I would love to have known either JFK or RFK for the same reason. Teddy ... not so much.
I'm sure I'd have found Reagan charming - everybody did - and Nixon was smart enough to be worth talking with.
If I were locked in room with Jimmy Carter I'd put a gun in my mouth.
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>Good points - and remember, Clinton was very intelligent. (Though lacked common sense)
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>In some instances, Kennedy's intelligence backfired on him.
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>Ironically, Reagan was a bit smarter than people gave him credit for - the man could quote intelligently from the von Mises classic, "Human Action". No easy task. I wasn't a Reagan-lover, but he was smarter than people assumed.
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>As for anti-idolatry, clearly you have never googled Olivia Munn. <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
