Best-selling author and Fox ratings king Bill O’Reilly may soon regret writing about a historical figure whose aides are still alive. Because in writing Killing Reagan, O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard have now drawn fire from 10 former White House biggies and Reagan biographers.
A.B. Culvahouse, counsel to Ronald Reagan, called the book “myth” and urged that it “be returned to the dustbin of fiction masquerading as history.”
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Former Attorney General Edwin Meese, one of the Gipper’s closest friends, said Killing Reagan does “a real disservice to our 40th president and to history itself.”
The assault on the latest in the O’Reilly-Dugard “Killing” series isn’t going to end soon.
“The pushback has more legs than the Rockettes,” said Reagan biographer Craig Shirley who, like others, blasts the book’s claim that Reagan was often befuddled and that top aides were poised to throw him out of office by invoking the 25th Amendment.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
