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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Nancy Reagan [eeeeek!]
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.141631.4936@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1993Jan21.210146.1840@PacBell.COM> <1993Jan22.151510.5640@dvorak.amd.com> <1993Jan22.170219.21284@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 14:16:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.170219.21284@tc.cornell.edu>
- shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan22.151510.5640@dvorak.amd.com>
- >tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
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- >>Rod, it's articles like that that make me glad that Mrs.
- >>Reagan is no longer in office!
-
- >I dunno. I really enjoyed the whole Schultz thing.
-
- Don Regan, too. I appreciated Nancy, because she was the
- perfect conduit for all my spleen and scorn about silly,
- superficial, vain, and vicious people in power. She was
- (is, I guess) quite tiny, a size 3 or something, and it
- always seemed to me she was highly concentrated virulence,
- an itty-bitty cesspool of terrible toxins.
-
- >Is anyone else reminded of Martha Mitchell?
-
- Poor Martha, she was simply crazy, and I think booze and
- pills were a major factor in her ridiculousness. For those
- too young to remember (yer gettin' up there, Melinda :-) she
- was the wife of John Mitchell, Nixon's campaign manager and
- Attorney General (I was thinking of him during the Baird
- hearings), and the first person (I think) to be convicted of
- a crime in connection with the Watergate scandal. Martha
- was a harridan of the first magnitude, and she used to berate
- journalists for going after John, making an unbelievable
- spectacle of herself in the process.
-
- In terms of classiness, it was all downhill after the
- Kennedys, who though they were low-life too, at least had
- enough common sense to draw the blinds. Most of the time.
-
- I rather liked the Clinton open house the other day. I
- think Clinton is a real person, whatever else one can say
- about him. I hope he manages to remain one (it ain't easy,
- I'm sure) in that zoo. Sure is a hell of a contrast; I
- can't think of one other president in our century who was
- anything like so real as Clinton.
-
- <> The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty
- <> to live in. -- A.E. Housman
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