<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[James Brown On&nbsp;Reagan]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='360' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/pB5pMBkjaZ4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span>
<p>From a 1984 interview newly animated by PBS Digital:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think he’s the most intelligent … I think he’s the most well-coordinated president we’ve ever had in history,” says Brown.</p>
<p>“You think he’s going to win again?” says [journalist Rocci] Fisch.</p>
<p>“I’m not here to endorse. I just know he’s the most well-organized president we’ve ever had in history. His acting ability taught him the whole structure of the country.”</p>
<p>“Communication, you mean?”</p>
<p>“Huh?”</p>
<p>“Communication?”</p>
<p>“He knows what everybody wants. You see, every American, every American man is still a cowboy. See you’ve got to remember that.”</p></blockquote>
<p>PBS&#8217;s animated series, &#8220;<a href="http://blankonblank.org/">Blank On Blank,</a>&#8221; recently did <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/04/21/perfectionism-as-paralysis/">DFW on ambition.</a></p>
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