Monday, April 27, 2009

We too


The extent of the Reagans' fascination with astrology, the occult, superstitions, etc. has been relatively well-documented (although the gentle reader will enjoy reminiscing about full-moon press conferences, pockets full of lucky charms and oath-of-office astrology charts... But now we know that Ronnie and Gorbachev had the UFO contingency accounted for during their peace talks:

President Reagan suddenly said to me, ‘What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space? Would you help us?’

(article here). Yeah you read that right. Bet they got a few chuckles out of that one over at the Kremlin...

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