When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford coming into the locker room. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were there all the time and all kinds of other celebrities. It was cool.

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.