I won’t attempt to make any profound comments about the passing of Ronald Reagan. Others much more capable than I have done this for me. I wasn’t a Reagan fan during his presidency; I never voted for him.
But one thing that I respected in him was that it was very clear that he didn’t merely want to be President, he wanted to do President—he wanted to accomplish something. Compare this with Bill Clinton who I believe is a type of my generation, the baby-boomer generation. Bill Clinton wanted to be President but he had no vision, no dream. Doing the job was apparently less important to him than wearing the outfit. Consequently his list of accomplishments as President are meager indeed.
There’s an old Texas wisecrack about someone being “all hat and no cattle”. Reagan had the hat and the cattle.
