Reagan/Clinton Mendacities
Aaron Yeater
AYEATER at ksgrsch.harvard.edu
Fri Jun 14 15:24:54 CDT 1996
> Clinton is certainly no prize in the honesty department, but I'll stick
> by my statement that Reagan's mendacity remains unrivaled. Clinton was
> going for a bit of cheap personal aggrandizement, which is sort of par
> for the course among politicians; Reagan rewrote the history of World War
> II, and fabricated an entire episode of his alleged life, among many
> other whoppers that Clinton (and company) would never have the
> imagination to think up.
Oddly enough, this bit of Reagan lore-creation was likely the work of
Michael Deaver,the Reagan press secretary (and for those looking for a
Goebbels-a-like, look no further) who also designed the infamous
"bitburg" event, where reagan visited a german graveyard with SS soldiers
buried there...oops...
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