I could be mis-remembering, but I think Daniel Rodgers, in Age of Fracture, says it was Reagan who first did this.https://twitter.com/robertwrighter/status/958538722290659328 …
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
Yep it was Reagan -- first one was a guy who rescued someone drowning in Potamac.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin
the guy who pulled people out of the crashed plane. i remember that--there was a tv movie in fact.
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Replying to @theodoreross @CoreyRobin
Yeah that's the one. Reagan had a real love for the types of heroic stories you find in Reader's Digest & newspapers.
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