"What
planet is he living on?"
--President Mitterand of France poses this question about Reagan to
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
"During
Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps
watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President
Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as
during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately
christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'"
"Poor
dear, there's nothing between his ears."
--British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
"He
has the ability to make statements that are so far outside the
parameters of logic that they leave you speechless"
--Patti Davis (formerly Patricia Ann Reagan) talking about her father, The
Way I See It
"Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy."
--James David Barber, presidential scholar, On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency, Mark Hertsgaard
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