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Photo Exhibit Puts Ronald Reagan Humor on Display
His ‘velvet weapon’
Humor flowed from Ronald Reagan.
The 40th U.S. president charmed the public, disarmed political foes and alarmed the Soviet Union with a seemingly endless supply of funny jokes and sight gags.
The humor and wit of Ronald Reagan are on display and recorded for history in a refreshingly funny exhibit of 31 photos in the otherwise serious Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The collection is titled “The President and Humor.”
The photos show Reagan’s humor at its best.
Ronald Reagan’s jokes sometimes jabbed, but they didn’t go for the jugular, in stark contrast to the mean-spirited digs and biting sarcasm that characterize today’s brand of political humor. Look at these photos and you might miss a bygone era of American history when Democrats and Republicans socialized and laughed at themselves and each other.
Gentle humor that connected
Ronald Reagan’s jokes were sometimes corny, hardly ever dirty and almost always good-natured — delivered with the impeccable timing of a former Hollywood actor.
