Ronald reagan biography video on michael moore
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Ronald reagan biography video on michael moore
By Pam Martens: September 25, 2012
Donald Regan, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary from Merrill Lynch
There is an infamous video clip in Michael Moore’s film, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” where Treasury Secretary, Donald Regan, leans toward the ear of President Ronald Reagan while he is delivering a speech and tells him to “speed it up,” in a manner suggesting he is speaking to his paid puppet.
The President doesn’t do anything to quell that impression, amiably accepting the criticism and continuing on.
Who speaks to the President of the United States that way? Donald Regan had been the Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, the largest Wall Street brokerage firm in terms of stockbrokers throughout much of the last century.
Later, Regan would become President Reagan’s Chief of Staff and was viewed by many as being the Acting President of the United States.
When Ron Suskind’s book, “Confidence Men,” was released last year, it included the deeply troubling revelation that Presiden