The Washington Post, June 8th, 2004
Back in 1984 I wrote about the travails of being a twin -- about how I never got to have my own birthday and how things had recently gotten even worse because, as it happened, Ronald Reagan had also been born on Feb. 6. Soon afterward I was feverishly scribbling up an anti-Reagan screed when a telegram arrived from Air Force One -- a birthday greeting, graceful and witty, from a sympathetic Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The screed would have to wait for another day. That aspect of Reagan -- his niceness, his graciousness and his indomitable good humor -- has been much remarked on since the 40th pre...
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