Donald Regan said Nancy color-coded Ronnie's days by astrology

[kentuck]

So the right-wingers thought Nancy and Ronnie were not into astrology? According to former Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, they were very much into astrology. So who's lying? CBS or the right-wingers?
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http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/reagan.html

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For the next eight years, Quigley determined the most opportune timing for all of the President's crucial activities. The First Lady would furnish Ronnie's tentative itinerary, which the astrologer would optimize and return. Then the White House staff would make the necessary adjustments. This tinkering affected the scheduling of press conferences, Air Force One departures, even the timing of international summits.

As former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan later wrote in his memoirs:


Although I had never met this seer -- Mrs. Reagan passed along her prognostications to me after conferring with her on the telephone -- she had become such a factor in my work, and in the highest affairs of the nation, that at one point I kept a color-coded calendar on my desk (numerals highlighted in green ink for "good" days, red for "bad" days, yellow for "iffy" days) as an aid to remembering when it was propitious to move the president of the United States from one place to another, or schedule him to speak in public, or commence negotiations with a foreign power.
"Mrs. Reagan's dependence on the occult went back at least as far as her husband's governorship, when she had depended on the advice of the famous Jeane Dixon. Subsequently she had lost confidence in Dixon's powers. But the First Lady seemed to have absolute faith in the clairvoyant talents of a woman in San Francisco."

"Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise."
--Donald Regan (Reagan's former chief of staff), For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington

[bleedingheart]

1. Ya know...as an open minded democrat I have no problem

with people dabbling with Astrology.... but you have to ask why the Republicans do???

Are they embarrassed by this?

[yella_dawg]

2. green ink for "good" days, red for "bad" days, yellow for "iffy" days

I wonder if Raygun had like, mauve days?

[stopbush]

3. You'd think repigs would use red ink for the good days

since most of their time in office is used running up the red ink.

[Brucey]

4. It goes so well with

voodoo economics!

PS: Is there a 13th floor in the White House? Shouldn't we feel the bumps on the candidates' heads to see which one to nominate? Was Raygun into bloodletting? Couldn't we use a divining rod to find oil in Alaska? How about sticking pins in an Osama doll?

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Hey, it's no more ridiculous than any other religions

What's the big problem?

[kentuck]

6. By the way, I have no problem with astrology....

I have a problem with the right-wingers not accepting the truth and censoring stuff that just happens to be true.

[mistertrickster]

7. Maybe that's how Tom Ridge got the "orange alert" thing going?

Ya think?

[ChickMagic]

8. If the astrologer was so good

why did Raygun get shot? Did she have it in for him?

[kskiska]

9. There's no question that this happened

Anyone who lived through that period saw the astrologer herself in a media blitz of all the talk shows. Regan wrote that book after Nancy ordered his firing. He depicted her as the dragon lady who really ran everything in the White House. He had to consult with her on everything.

[9215]

10. False idols and gods!!! Blasphemers!!

Woe unto you Oh Israel, for you have golden calfs and false profits aplenty....Woe unto you!!