The Boston Globe, June 1st, 1989
The scene was dramatic and the star knew it. The evening before, in a campaign debate between Ronald Reagan and his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, Reagan had stumbled over his words and appeared confused. Democrats exulted, none more so than the patriarch who slowly descended the stairs at the hotel in Louisville the next morning. "No doubt about it," Claude Pepper said, a mischievous grin creasing his face. "President Reagan is definitely showing his age." Pepper, who died Tuesday at 88, spotted the president a decade. In a public career that began in Florida with his election to the US...
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