{"id":2629,"date":"2004-06-29T03:40:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/29\/nyt-interview-with-ron-p-reagan\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:16:26","slug":"nyt-interview-with-ron-p-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/29\/nyt-interview-with-ron-p-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT interview with Ron P. Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10697,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/27\\\/magazine\\\/27QUESTIONS.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20151012041817\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/27\\\/magazine\\\/27QUESTIONS.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:40:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:15:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:15:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/27\/magazine\/27QUESTIONS.html\" title=\"Questions for Ronald P. Reagan\">interview with Ron P. Reagan<\/a> (President Reagan&#8217;s son) in the Times today. I like the way this man thinks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  I would be unelectable. I&#8217;m an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won&#8217;t accept.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  <em>Do you and your wife, Doria, have children?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  No.\u00a0We have three cats. It&#8217;s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  <em>How do you account for all the glowing obituaries of &#91;your father&#93;?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  I think it was a relief for Americans to look at pictures of something besides men on leashes. If you are going to call yourself a Christian &#8212; and I don&#8217;t &#8212; then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog&#8217;s leash? How can Christians tolerate it?<\/p>\n<p>  It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight &#8212; it has put them in greater danger.<\/p>\n<p>  <em>Did you vote for Bush in the last election?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  No.\u00a0I did not.<\/p>\n<p>  <em>How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80&#8217;s, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a mindful human being. That&#8217;s probably the nicest way I can put it.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  One thing that Buddhism teaches you is that every moment is an opportunity to change. And we will have a moment in November to make a big change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn skippy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Lazarus Raised&#8221; by Gabriel, Peter from the album <em>Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ<\/em> (1989, 1:25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very interesting interview with Ron P. Reagan (President Reagan&#8217;s son) in the Times today. 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