Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive too innocent to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns the rattle of musketry the strange mournful mutter of the battlefield.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry get gas in the car pick up a script.