But in rebutting the myth that he was a simpleton or a chameleon, she underplays his contradictions.

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That, too, ironically, is a fact that liberals ignored, caricaturing Reagan as an idiot, a simpleton, an "amiable dunce, " as Clark Clifford famously called him.

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It would be unfair to portray Mr Amory as a simpleton.

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