sunset
a friend says that he was a good actor as president. walter jennings says that you can't be president of the united state of america without having a background in acting.
while in grade school, i remember a rice cooker filled with the yummy white stuff. and that the actions of this president are going to affect how my family fares for the rest of the year. because if he didn't stop the soviets from having the biggest nuclear weapons, then what's going to happen to me and my family?
at the end of it all, president mikhail gorbachev, prime minister margaret thatcher, his vice president, and other nemesis and colleagues attended his funeral. what do we know of minds of looming leaders? perhaps there really was sincerity behind the pomp and circumstance.
president ronald reagan will be buried in sunset. in the same, it really does seem like his wife, nancy, will quietly retreat into private life. yet unlike her husband, she might pass on just as quietly as well.
in the meantime, eureka college's reagan museum held extended official hours. boyhood hometown dixon, illinois, never forgot to make their presence felt in prayer and song. the small, white house on eight sixteen south hennepin avenue and the park alongside became immediate icons. "illinois' favorite son," the regular folk called him. what do we know of minds of happy strangers? how inspiring.
