Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990
Mr. Magoo Remembers
By Garry Wills
An American Life
by Ronald Reagan
Simon and Schuster, 748 pp., $24.95
Ronald Reagan is a lethally nice man. Pursuit of him takes one up above the Ike line of mere amiability into a rarefied atmosphere that is too sweet for his enemies to breathe. He is so courtly, in a quaint and old-world way, that he still cannot bring himself to use all the four letters of a four-letter word like h--l. He likes to be liked, and cannot conceive that anyone might dislike him. His own virtue is self-evident. Merely to proclaim it is to prove it. There is no doubting his sincerity:
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