MATT DRUDGE :
CLINTON DISAPPOINTMENT: LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST
Former President Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been left off the speakers list of Fridayâs Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixonâs was," a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. "Heâs angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet."
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The top source says Clinton has been critical that both Bush presidents will address the crowd gathered at National Cathedral. Nixonâs vice president Gerald Ford did not speak at Nixonâs funeral. Clintonâs inner circle is convinced Nancy Reagan has personally shut out Clinton from any high-profile participation. "It is a state funeral, using tax dollars," the top Clinton insider explained.
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Former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will join President Bush in eulogizing Ronald Reagan, Reaganâs office announced. Presiding over the service will be former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, who is an ordained Episcopal priest. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OâConnor and the Rabbi Harold Kusher will give readings, while Irish tenor Ronan Tynan will sing.
| Maybe Bill could accompany him on the saxophone? |
The eulogy is being prepared by President Bushâs chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, who also wrote the presidentâs moving speech for a memorial service in the same cathedral after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Bubba doesnât realize the eulogizers; Bushs 41&43, Thatcher, and Mulrooney have a connection. Bush 43; the current president, Bush 41; RRâs Veep, and Mulrooney and Thatcher; fellow leaders of RRâs time and fellow philosophical mates. 
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