Self-deprecation as a Strategy
Copyright Jack Mixner. 714 449 1040. www.mixnerstrategy.com
Reagan's diaries are out. What makes them special (Rutten)?
- No self-rightousness.
- No self-pity.
- No self-justification.
- He didn't take attacks in the press personally.
- He had firm conviction, without any inclination to rancor.
- Made a friend when he told Thurgood Marshall about his childhood to support his belief that he wasn't a racist.
- Still a gee-whiz kind of guy about what he was involved in balanced with his clear love of Nancy Reagan.
Everybody has an opinion about Reagan. His diaries support only some of those opinions - the better ones.
References
Rutten, Tim. The pure Reagan emerges from diaries. Los Angeles Times. 21 May 2007. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-rutten22may22,1,7979494.story