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March 6, 2016
Ronald and Nancy Reagan: The Real Deal According to a Secret Service Agent
The real deal, moral, honest, respectful and dignified. They treated Secret Service and everyone else with respect and honor, thanked everyone all the time.
He took the time to know everyone on a personal level. One favorite story was early in his Presidency when he came out of his room with a pistol tucked on his hip. The agent in charge asked: "Why the pistol, Mr. President?" He replied, "In case you boys can't get the job done, I can help." It was common for him to carry a pistol. When he met with Gorbachev, he had a pistol in his briefcase. She was very nice but very protective of the President and the Secret Service was often caught in the middle. She tried hard to control what he ate. He would say to the agent, "Come on, you gotta help me out." The Reagan's drank wine during State dinners and special occasions only otherwise they shunned alcohol. The Secret Service could count on one hand the times they were served wine during family dinner. For all the fake bluster of the Carters, the Reagan's were the ones who lived life as genuinely moral people.
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Posted by: Rob De Witt ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 6, 2016 5:47 PM
We may not see their like again any time soon, but good people like them are still out there. It's just that they generally have better things to do with their time than climb into the mud-pit that is national politics.
Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland
Posted by: Hale Adams at March 6, 2016 5:53 PM
The left is gonna have fun with this.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 6, 2016 7:57 PM
I don't think so Ghost, they have their hands full right now with the Bovine.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at March 7, 2016 9:07 AM
Oh dear, veedub, did I miss something worthwhile?
Do a brutha a solid.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 7, 2016 11:04 AM