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Monday Document Fun Day

"USA! USA! USA!" edition

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Rick Perlstein
May 04, 2026
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I thought I would post a fun document I collected at the Deaver and Hannaford papers at the Hoover Institution, a Ronald Reagan advance manual from 1979 with fun details about Ronnie and Nancy’s culinary preferences, but, scouring Ye Olde Hard Rive for said doc, I ran across this one, which is better. Hereupon: a manual from the Office of Presidential Advance dated from October, 2002. I imagine I collected it when made the rounds of the lefty blogs that were my meat and bread back in those days.

Most of the only seven of its 103 pages that aren’t redacted are rather banal:

…and then, of a sudden, things get funky.

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