re: #78 Blind Frog Belly White

My take is that he learned negotiation from being a Union President - you start out by asking for the moon, so that at the end of the negotiation, you’ve ‘reluctantly’ allowed yourself to be pushed into accepting what you wanted in the first place.

James Garner, who was a pretty smart guy, had this to say about Ronnie’s time as Union President:

” Ronald Reagan wasn’t qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That’s no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.”

variety.com