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Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.Scott Farris
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They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.Scott Farris
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In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.Scott Farris
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Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.Scott Farris
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The great actors always play themselves.Scott Farris
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One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.Scott Farris
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(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.Scott Farris
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As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.Scott Farris