You can post all the pictures you want, Frank, but don't forget there was a time when Presidents were collegial. Reagan had a friendly relationship with Tip and it ended up benefiting him.
Everybody doesn't have to be mean as a snake to be president.
@Emjay The friendship between Reagan and O'Neill is a myth.
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/336185/good-ol-tipHe and O’Neill had some friendly moments: particularly when O’Neill visited Reagan in the hospital after the latter had been shot.
But look: O’Neill was a nasty piece of work, who constantly slandered and defamed Reagan as a hater of the poor, a warmonger, and an idiot. O’Neill may not have been a warmonger, but he was as ugly a class warrior as we’ve ever had. He was one of the most partisan men who ever lived. To borrow language from another politician, Nixon, shall we flick the scab off the wound?
I heard O’Neill say something a million times: Reagan may have started out poor, sure, but then he started making big money in Hollywood, and resented the taxes taken out of his checks. Plus, he had not “grown” in office, but had clung to the same stupid beliefs he arrived in Washington with.
Said O’Neill, “He has no concern, no regard, no care for the little man of America, and I understand that: Because of his lifestyle, he never meets those people.” Reagan, according to O’Neill, was “callous,” “a real Ebenezer Scrooge,” “a cheerleader for selfishness.” His administration, said O’Neill, had “made a target of the politically weak, the poor, the working people.” Reagan’s policies were just “one big Christmas party for the rich.”
....Here is O’Neill in 1984: “The evil is in the White House at the present time. And that evil is a man who has no care and no concern for the working class of America and the future generations of America, and who likes to ride a horse. He’s cold. He’s mean. He’s got ice water for blood.”
