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Nov 11, 2011 12:07
Reagan was governor of California. I believe it was the free speech movement, although don't quote me on that, but the students at UC Berkeley were raising hell about something, and they demanded to meet with Reagan. The Governor granted the meeting to some of the student leaders --and at the meeting, the student leaders said to Reagan (summarized), "You don't know what we're going through! You don't know what our lives are like. You're just an old man. You're outta touch. You have no idea what we want in our future. I mean, you didn't have phones growing up. You didn't have airplanes growing up. You had nothing! You can't relate to us in any way." Reagan just sat there and listened to 'em complain, and when the student leaders finished telling Reagan how out of touch he was because of how old he was -- and how he had nothing in common with them -- he looked at the student leaders and he said, "You know, you're right. We didn't have those things. We had to invent them for you."
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