Reagan the Airhead

Geoffrey | January 9, 2012
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"Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead! That’s one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that’s drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today, Monday, September the 27th, 1999."
— Katie Couric opening the September 27, 1999 Today show, before an interview with Reagan biographer Edmund Morris, who actually wrote that President Reagan was "an apparent airhead." He told Couric: "He was a very bright man."