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The Last Great American

Ronald Reagan was the last American president born in a log cabin. His parents taught him self-reliance at an early age. He read the Fountainhead while he was still in the womb and was so inspired by Ayn Rand's message of individualism that he was the attending physician at his own birth.

He left home at age three to enter show business. He sang Yankee Doodle Dandy to Soviet peasants and they tipped enough to fund his education at the Harvard of the South.

He kept Walter Mondale's head mounted over his fireplace as a souvenir of the '84 election.

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