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> -Caveat Lector-
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> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, "Howard R. Davis III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It's interesting that so many have argued that Clinton should not be
> >impeached just because he committed a couple of felonies, but you can
> >suggest that Reagan should have because he had a poor memory.
>
> Indeed he should have, as should any president who can no longer function
> in office; there was plenty of other stuff with which Reagan could have
> been impeached, also Bush...
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I agree that there may have been other stuff, especially with Bush.
However, I just don't know that Reagan clearly demonstrated
incompetence. But then I was not around him at the time.
>
> But just because THEY weren't, is no reason Clinton shouldn't have been
> impeached and be removed from office...
>
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Agreed.
> The Klintonistas insistance on whining about "what about what Reagan and
> Bush did?" reminds one of the same tune sung by Nixon's supporters during
> Watergate: "Everyone ELSE did it!" And the Nixonians duly trotted out
> all the sins of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson...
>
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Agreed.
> >I am not
> >even sure that the real evidence of him having a problem showed up until
> >his failure to remember one of his staff in a deposition he gave after
> >his presidency.
>
> I don't know -- all the news clips showing him asleep at cabinet and
> summit meetings sort of gave ME a clue the guy seemed to be getting up in
> years and having a problem remaining attentive for more than a few minutes
> at a time...
>
> Senility -- especially Alzheimer's -- takes YEARS to develop into the
> full-blown dementia Reagan now displays...the first signs can show up a
> good 10, 15, 20 years before full dementia ensues...
>
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I am actually not so sure that Reagan is as demented as many would
believe. The last speech he gave before the Republican Convention looked
to me like there was a plan to keep him from saying all that he had to
say. His speech kept getting interrupted at inappropriate and long
times. Maybe that is just the nature of conventions, but I remember
thinking that maybe there were some who wanted him silenced.
"Alzheimer's" would certainly be one way.
> >This is probably incorrect. The economy was "blown away" by Nixon's
> >ending of the dollars link with gold. The subsequent change in the
> >relationship between the two was reacted to by the OPEC nations with a
> >raising of their prices to reflect its true worth.
>
> Also, it ignores that it was afterwards that there was NEVER any 'oil
> shortage', that indeed the major oil companies (to which the Bush family
> has major ties) had vast stockpiles of oil sitting in holding tanks along
> the east, west, and gulf coasts...
>
> Rather than OPEC driving up prices, it was the western oil companies
> manipulating the situation to 'justify' a vast increase in the price of
> oil...
>
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I agree with you on this to some degree, but think that it was more a
case of both working together.
Howard Davis
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