I'M Trying to Have Fun

Ron Reagan's risque business

To the 6 million viewers of NBC's Saturday Night Live, it looked like just another boffo send-up of the President. Playing off the hit movie Risky Business, in which a high school senior throws a wild party when his parents are away, the skit had the Reagans at Camp David, leaving their son to look after the White House. Sure enough, a gyrating lad in undershorts dashes into the Oval Office wildly plucking a guitar and dancing like a man possessed. Wait a minute. That was no Tom Cruise playing the President's son. That was the President's son. "I thought it...

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