Current Events > No one before had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed...

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At presidential news conferences, especially in his first year, he embarrassed himself, repeatedly.

You could walk through his deepest thoughts, a California legislator said, and not get your ankles wet.

In all fields of public affairsfrom diplomacy to the economythe president stunned Washington policymakers by how little basic information he commanded. His mind, said the well-disposed columnist, was barren terrain.

An authority on national defense, reported, His only contribution throughout the entire hour and a half [a meeting on nation security] was to interrupt somewhere at midpoint to tell us hed watched a movie the night before, and he gave us the plot from War Games.

That's Reagan for you.