Ronald Reagan is dead. He certainly lived a long time. He certainly was a creep in many ways. Time passes. He’s dead.
Now, I’m not a big fan of GoogObiting famous people. I like the lesser-known weirdos, people we can learn from. There’s no more to learn from Reagan. So I’m going to institute a new feature, “Last First Paragraphs”, where I’ll GoogObit the first paragraphs of Reagan obituaries the world over. Here’s the NYT:
Ronald Wilson Reagan, a former film star who became America’s 40th president, the oldest to enter the White House but imbued with a youthful optimism rooted in the traditional virtues of a bygone era, died peacefully on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.