Ronald Reagan's one-liners

March 30, 1981 John Hinckley Jr fires six shots at President Ronald Reagan, a bullet lodges an inch from his heart Reagan is rushed to the operating room and tells his doctors I hope they are all Republicans introduces them to the president of the states united our 40th president survived, of course, and in addition to his toughness, the shooting showed the American people that the great communicator also had quite the sense of humor. Well, quick, or you might have to give a speech in your pajamas throughout his political career. Reagan used humor to win friends, influence voters. You are already the oldest president in history and kill the opposition.

No one knew this better than Democratic challenger Walter Mondale. I won't do it. Make age a theme in this campaign. I am not going to exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience for political purposes. You wanted law and order in this city. Has it. A former Hollywood actor and spokesman for General Electric Reagan knew how to make humor out of it. He seems off the cuff, except it wasn't Mike Devers in his book, he said he had a short attention span. Well, he was going to answer that, but what the hell let's move on to something else?

You know you can talk to any number of people. President Reagan's speechwriters over the years and when they gave him a speech, sometimes the speechwriters would come back with a quote, an expression, or a joke that they hadn't seen before. Turns out the gipper had a secret comedy weapon, says executive John Highbush. director of the Reagan library, so this is all the contents of his desk, the last desk used two boxes filled with the last objects that were inside President Reagan's work desk, cool, okay, listen, I want to see this stuff buried inside one of these boxes. a stack of index cards the president's famous one-

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adolescence is the time when children suddenly feel responsible for answering the phone is pretty good, he's funny, as modest as they come, they were political dynamite, a war chest full of jokes, many he wrote himself, others he borrowed, someone once said that, actually, As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in schools, I remember that.

When a hot news story broke and reporters were running around shouting, stop the chisels, we showed some of the jokes to the comedian, he drew Carey jokes about Congress. I have sometimes wondered what the ten commandments would have been like if Moses had transmitted them through the US the congress of the Soviet Union what are the four bad things about Soviet agriculture spring summer autumn and winter and about himself alone to show you that this is the best just to show you how young I am I intend to campaign in all 13 states he was a guy who wasn't afraid to make fun of himself which was cool you know whatever you think he is the elephant in the room, that's what you should be able to talk about and joke about when I do the same thing, the first thing I do is make a joke about my appearance that totally inoculates you when I go for a physical now they don't ask me how old I am , they just carbon dated me Reagan's sunny disposition His ability to joke about almost anything predates his career in politics says his daughter Patty Davis She says it was a lifelong coping mechanism.

I think everything about my father goes back to the fact that he was the son of an alcoholic and he protected himself against the unpredictability of his home by developing this type of mood coding about everything I don't want to feel the pain here I don't want to feel the unpredictability here Mr. President al To talk tonight about the continuing recession you have blamed the mistakes of the past and you blame Congress for doing something Blame it on you, yes, because for many years I was a Democrat at home. Davis also saw another side to his father's humor.

The reason we made it a mass dance was to embody the distinctive high-pitched voice of writer Truman Capote. The idea of ​​dominoes. black and white idea, but I'm trying to imagine Ronald Reagan imitating Truman Capote, yeah, and he wasn't doing it to humiliate me, but, for me, because he was so idealistic, you know, I thought, oh, this could be it, you know , it's like he's putting down, you know, gay man or something, he really wasn't, he just thought it was funny, oh, and there's one more Reagan family joke after that assassination attempt, the gipper told nancy Honey, I forgot to avoid you.