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| Lot # 116 PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/11/1986 - Document 251567 |
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RONALD REAGAN
On hearing aids and how to celebrate birthdays as you get older.
TLS: "Ron" as 40th U.S. President, 1p, 6¾x9. The White
House, Washington, 1986 August 11. To 83-year-old Ken Murray, Beverly Hills. In
full: "Thanks for your nice letter and for relaying Bette Lou's generous
words. If you are being fitted for the same kind of ear plug I have, let me tell
you they are just great and so inconspicuous I call them the contact lenses of
hearing aids. With regard to your problems with mathematics, may I suggest you
start having anniversaries of your 39th birthday. That's a gift Jack Benny left
to all of us. Nancy sends her love, and from both of us to Bette Lou."
Ronald Reagan, the first former actor elected to the presidency, was also the
oldest President inaugurated. He was 69 years and 349 days old at his first
inauguration and was 75 when he wrote this letter. On February 6,
2002, Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. President to reach the age of 91. He
frequently joked about his age. In 1984, in a presidential debate with
56-year-old Walter Mondale, the 73-year-old President said that age should not
be an issue in the campaign. Reagan said he would not exploit the fact that his
opponent was young and inexperienced. In 1992, after Arkansas Governor William
Jefferson Clinton was nominated for President, Reagan, then 81, with a veiled
reference to Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen's comment about JFK to then Senator Dan
Quayle during the 1988 VP debate, said: "This fellow they've nominated claims
he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas
Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And, governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."
KEN MURRAY was a vaudevillian, actor, radio and television entertainer
who had his own TV show in the early 1950s. Murray was the guest on JACK
BENNY's first TV show in 1950. One of Benny's long-running comedy routines
included his age always being 39. Jack Benny's radio show ran from 1932-1955 and
his television show from 1950-1965. Benny first turned 39 in 1933. Fine
condition.
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