“Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.”

— Simon Hoggart

Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/sep/11/politics.guardiancolumnists

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