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  • Rove says Reagan had "a first-rate mind"

    06/11/2005 9:39:24 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 25 replies · 688+ views
    LA Daily News ^ | 6/11/05 | AP
    SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Karl Rove said critics are wrong to portray the president as a good-natured bumpkin. George W. Bush's top political adviser wasn't talking about his boss. He meant the late President Ronald Reagan, who like the current White House tenant was mocked by some comics and critics as being intellectually shallow. "Reagan was a man of ideas" who had "a first-rate mind," Rove said during a guest lecture Saturday at the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. "He was a great communicator because he had great ideas to communicate" and was right in his view that communism...