Reagan

In the '80s, The Gipper tries to save The New Republic...with his vice-president's fated son:

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."
-- Ronald Reagan in his recently published diaries, May 17, 1986.

UPDATE: The pounding the right-wing blogosphere is giving Beauchamp continues...apparently ex-fiances are fair game as character witnesses these days.

UPDATE 2: Well, the quote is fake. Oh well. Too good to be true, I suppose.