Reagan: Actor at heart.

Near the end of his presidency, television network PBS aired a lengthy "Frontline" documentary called "The Real Life of Ronald Reagan." It was an ironic tide because the narrator explains that it's about the way U.S. President Ronald Reagan appropriated other American folk tales,making it difficult at times to distinguish between the teller and the tale." As President, Reagan often expressed his abiding love of the acting profession. Much of his presidency employed his celebrated performance skills, and as a denizen of the U.S. motion picture industry, he used films and film lore as a powerful presidential skill. And he may not have even recalled which myth was actual and which myth wasn't.