A Man Writing A Letter Is A

Live By Publicity, You'll Probably Die By Publicity.

Life Is Always Walking Up To Us And Saying, "come On In, The Living's Fine," And What Do We Do? Back Off And Take Its Picture.

A Man Doesn't Amount To Something Because He Has Been Successful At A Third-rate Career Like Journalism. It Is Evidence, That's All: Evidence That If He Buckled Down And Worked Hard, He Might Some Day Do Something Really Worth Doing.

We Honor Ambition, We Reward Greed, We Celebrate Materialism, We Worship Acquisitiveness, We Commercialize Art, We Cherish Success And Then We Bark At The Young About The Gentle Arts Of The Spirit. The Kids Know That If We Really Valued Learning, We Would Pay Our Teachers What We Pay Our Lawyers And Stockbrokers. If We Valued Art, We Would Not Measure It By Its Capacity To Produce Profits. If We Regarded Literature As Important, We Would Remove It From The Celebrity Sweepstakes And Spend A Little Money On Our Libraries.

Letter Writing Was Clearly Important To Reagan. Even As President He Kept Dashing Off Letters To Friends, Pen Pals, Media People, Statesmen, Critics, And The Kind Of People Who Write To Presidents Never Expecting A Reply.