John Mace, I don’t agree with the position taken, but apparently in Bill O’Reilly’s book Shooting Reagan, he asserts that the shooting left Reagan a lot more affected than first thought and that his mental functions began slipping then. George Will called O’Reilly out on the statements and they had a silly fight about it.
I’m glad you called these out. I accepted without question that Nixon got drunk to the point of blacking out each night, but in trying to find a cite to answer you, I learned that the drunken phone call from the Frost/Nixon movie was fiction, and that a secret service “tell all” book revealed that toward the end of his presidency, when he was pretty stressed, he’d down two martinis every other night. :eek:
On the other hand, there is a recording of Kissinger telling Scowcroft that Nixon was too drunk to speak to the British Prime Minister when the Yom Kippur War broke out; and Kissinger told his aides that Nixon was frequently too drunk to function.
“Money is the root of all evil”
That would be sarcasm, and not a quote.
No he wasn’t.
You misread it, it happens.
Were that true, it makes Interstellar a funnier movie.
Obviously he can’t cite Reagan being brain dead while president, as that would mean he was in some sort of coma or dead. Hence it was obvious hyperbole.
If you didn’t get that, that’s on you.
This is the most weirdly fucked-up thread I’ve seen here in quite a while. Do you have to be stoned or drunk to post in it?