Ronald Reagan
Posted by Stuart at 09:24 AM on June 08, 2004So as everyone now knows, Ronald Reagan passed away this week. I don't have much to add to the tributes, but I will say it seems strange to hear of the death of someone who I remember as President. In my life, Johnson (1973) and Nixon (1994) died, but I was too young to remember either of them as President.
It seems like there were/are a lot of ex-Presidents still alive. Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton. Has this ever happened in US History before? Especially when two of them served two terms. Not that it matters really, just a good trivia question for "Who wants to be a Millionare?" I suppose.
The reason I think of this is that just yesterday, a fellow ajarn and I were talking about Clinton's upcoming 900+ page book and how Clinton and Bush Jr are both very young and presumably will be around for a while. We were wondering how they would influence politics in their post-Presidential lives.
I won't comment on Reagan's legacy, but I will say that it's sad to see anyone (and their families) suffer through Alzheimer's. What a (mentally) painful, sad, and scary way to go.
