Reagan to Gorbachov

Apparently (I wasn't actually there) when Reagan met Gorbachov, Gorbie asked him why he was always saying such nasty things about the Soviet Union. Reagan told him he didn't always say nasty things. Sometimes he told Soviet Union jokes. And then Reagan (reportedly) told this story to Gorbie:

A New Soviet Man was asked by his wife to get some bread at the store. "I haven't the time," she told him. So, dutiful Russian husband that he was, he agreed to go to State Bread Store.

When he got to the store there was this huge line down the block. Not only that, the line was moving _very_ slowly. After three hours he was finally inside the store, with only 3-4 people left in front of him. Then the baker announced, "Store Closed! Everyone Leave! Bread Nyet!"

The guy lost it. He began raving. "Three hours in line for nothing! The Communist Party is always saying they will provide for all of us and they are so incompetent they can't even make enough bread!"

A guy in a trench coat with a hat pulled down over his eyes steps out from the line behind the guy and says, "Comrade, your conduct has been noted. You have been seen speaking against the Party in public. Be warned, you will never let this occur again."

"That does it!" screams the guy and he storms out of the store.

When he gets home his wife sees he has no bread. "Oh no," she cries. You spent three hours in line and the Party couldn't make enough bread for you!"

"That's nothing," answers the guy. "They can't make bullets anymore either!"

How about some trivia?

Ronnie appeared in over 50 movies and Nancy over 12. What was the one movie where they appeared, together?

"I know, I know, I know," he says waving his handly wildly. The teacher ignores him.

As another piece of trivia, Reagan the Right Winger is the only US president ever to belong to a labor union. He was also the president of that labor union (the Screen Actor's Guild) and he continued to pay union dues and belong to the union even while president. He liked to pull out his union card and show it to Democrats when they said he was anti-Labor.

I know the answer to the movie question too...but actually there where 2 movies they appeared in together...the other one was a home movie! :)

Two jokes I heard the Gipper tell on t.v.: 1. In the USSR the best historian is the one that can predict the future. 2. Lublianka is the tallest building in the world. From there you can see Siberia. - My four cents.

Reagan told Gorbachev a joke that in America, any citizen was free to come into his office, pound on the desk, and say, "Mr. Reagan, I don't like the way you're running this country!" And in the Soviet Union, it was the same way, any citizen could walk into Gorbechev's office and say, "I don't like the way Ronald Reagan is running his country!"

For me he was always A GUY I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE MY FRIEND. A close, reliable, healthy friend. This might explain part of the motives, at least for some people.

I would say that it is nostalgia to a large extent. People remember with fondness an America with a purpose (fight the Russians) and even back during his presidency people were so satisfied that some people tried to start a movement to get the constitution changed so that he could run for a third term.

He had a hopeful vision for America.