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By WALTER DAY
We were having lunch at the
old “ComerPost” a week ago, the new “Four and Twenty.” I liked the old name—I like the new name. When Peggy Clark ran the restaurant it was a good place to gather. It is a very good restaurant now run by a very capable twosome Vinnie and Heidi, longtime friends and neighbors. They work hard and lay a good spread, but you couldn’t beat Peggy as a good hostess. She used to treat us to lunch at Christmas, when she was closed for the holidays, a memorable treat.
Anyway we were having lunch with the usual bunch, merchant, doctor, golfer, mail carrier, lawyer, farmer, chief, a varied group in occupation, intelligence and civility. Senator McCarthy joined us and discussed his coming presidency. He explained why he declared for Reagan in 1980 against President Carter. I was personally for Carter since he was a classmate at Navy. (I didn’t know him there, never recall having even seen him but I looked him up in the yearbook and there he is. I wrote him a letter and sent him $25 but he never answered the letter. He cashed the check and put me on a lot of mailing lists.)
To get back to the senator, the reason he picked Reagan over Carter and Anderson was based on their explanations of their “Bom Again” experiences. It boiled down to the fact that Reagan did not know exactly when he was “Bom Again” nor could he remember exactly what
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