[NYCVirago]

I liked the column OK, but this was jarring and wrong sounding to me:
"The Bushes don't know everyone. The Clintons knew Hollywood, but Hollywood didn't love them; it just embraced them. The Reagans were loved by the ones who knew them. It's nice when you see this. The last first couple of whom I think it could be said were the Kennedys."

I thought so too. Besides, if the guest list for the 41@80 party is any judge, it looks like Bush the Elder knows, and is loved by, a wide variety of people. He had Mikhail Gorbachev in a polo shirt and baseball cap presenting him flowers after his parachute jump, for goodness sakes! Not to mention Larry King as his party's emcee. And it sure looks to me like Hollywood loves the Clintons.

[cyncooper]

Besides, if the guest list for the 41@80 party is any judge, it looks like Bush the Elder knows, and is loved by, a wide variety of people. He had Mikhail Gorbachev in a polo shirt and baseball cap presenting him flowers after his parachute jump, for goodness sakes! Not to mention Larry King as his party's emcee.

You have pointed to what I was thinking of. I really think the country has come to love the elder Bush more than he ever was in office. (except for brief spots of extraordinary high approval, where the country glimpsed he was a good man). His book of letters, his grandfatherly and sweet nature--witness his eulogy last Friday. Not the deepest or most historically significant, but very much like a euology we'd want from a close friend or relative for one of our loved ones. And people love that. Also, I think those who know George and Laura Bush--and are people of good will, not liberal or democrat enemies--love them, too. The Reagans had the same type (still do) of enemies.

And it sure looks to me like Hollywood loves the Clintons.

I agree with Peggy's assessment here of Hollywood and the Clintons. I wouldn't call it "love", but drawn to what they represent and the positions they achieved.