A moment I’ve been dreading. George (Bush) 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-callled 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 diary for May 17, 1986, as quoted at Only in New Mexico.
Except, of course, it isn’t true.
The line is from Kinsley himself. When told that Reagan had mentioned him (Kinsley) in the diary, Kinsley wrote a column speculating what it might be. The above is one of his fantasies from My Lunch With Reagan.
Update: Jim Baca removed the bogus Reagan diary item from his post.