OW: If Ronnie can have his jelly beans … God, I’m worried. I hope that his checkup turns out all right, because I’m more worried about [George H. W.] Bush than I am about Reagan! I want Reagan to live! Bush is a creep, a real creep. Especially compared to Gorbachev. Bush thinks if he doesn’t ignore Gorbachev he’ll lose the Jesse Helms group, so he has to kowtow. What’s amazing is that not one American Kremlinologist … Krem … Krem-lin-ologist … had a word to say about Gorbachev. He popped out of a box.
