It's Saturday, and that means that Lagniappe and I watched cowboy movies on AMC until noon, same as we do every Saturday.
OK, I watched cowboy movies. He beat up his stuffed Care-Bear.
This morning's movie was "Law and Order" a 1953 classic starring our greatest 20th Century President Ronald Reagan as Frame Johnson, an ex-marshal who just wants to settle down but who is plagued by a town's evil land baron until he does what the good guy always does in post-World War Two westerns--stand tall where others cower and single-handedly combat the villains with punches and bullets until they're all vanquished.
And as I watched Reagan in action on the screen, I suddenly noticed something that basically only a left-handed gun guy would notice: his pistol holster was on his left hip. Ronald Reagan was left-handed!
So after the movie was over, I did some checking, and sure enough, our 40th President was a southpaw. (And so were James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, George Bush Senior, and (ugh!) Bill Clinton.)
Other famous left-handers are/were:
Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams and Benjamin Franklin, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Astronauts Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Wally Schirra, Generals H. NormDan Schwartzkopf and Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Attorney Clarence Darrow, Cartoonist Bill Maudlin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and bad guys John Dillinger and John Wesley Hardin. Authors Mark Twain and H.G. Wells were left-handed, and so was guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Some of my favorite actors were left-handed as well, including Don Adams, Dan Aykroyd, George Kennedy, Chuck Connors, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Eddie Albert, Keith Carradine, Harry Anderson, Robert DeNiro, Dick Van Dyke, Steve McQueen, Telly Savalas and Don Rickles.
So if you're left-handed, welcome to the club. It's one with many prestigious members!
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