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Years ago, he arrived late to a speech he was giving and excused himself saying, "I've just had the most horrible news. The Reagan Library has burned down. Both books were lost. And the tragedy is, he hadn't finished coloring one of them."
Even Reagan's admirers made fun of his lack of intellectualism. His speechwriter Peggy Noonan once remarked that he was proof that "the unexamined life is worth living."