Two of a Kind

A speechwriter, I worked with my mind. My father worked with his hands, producing mechanical drawings for IBM. 1 graduated from Dartmouth and Oxford. He never attended college. 1 flourished in Washington, D.C. He always disliked big cities, once telling me how. as an aspiring artist at the Art Students League, he’d felt out of place in New York. I read a dozen magazines and half a dozen newspapers. He read Reader’s Digest and the Binghamton Evening Press, and that was that. It made me uncomfortable to do so, but 1 just couldn’t seem to help it. I looked down on him.

Ronald Reagan got me over it.

About the Author

Peter M. Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

A speechwriter, I worked with my mind. My father worked with his hands, producing mechanical drawings for IBM. 1 graduated from Dartmouth and Oxford. He never attended college. 1 flourished in Washington, D.C. He always disliked big cities, once telling me how. as an aspiring artist at the Art Students League, he’d felt out of place in New York. I read a dozen magazines and half a dozen newspapers. He read Reader’s Digest and the Binghamton Evening Press, and that was that. It made me uncomfortable to do so, but 1 just couldn’t seem to help it. I looked down on him.

Ronald Reagan got me over it.