Bonus Episode: Mo Rocca on the Art of the Obituary
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The Uncreative First Line in President Ronald Reagan's Obituary
I'm wondering if there was a particular obituary that stood out to you at some point as having been particularly lacking. The first one that springs to mind is actually President Ronald Reagan. I think it was something like Ronald Wilson Reagan, the longest living president in that little clause and I thought, there's so much you can put there. It belies any kind of editorializing on the part of the writer of the obituary.
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