Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan

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"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" is a 1968 short story by English writer J. G. Ballard. Written in the style of a scientific report, it ostensibly documents a series of experiments intended to measure the psychosexual appeal of Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California and a candidate in the 1968 Republican Party presidential primaries. First published as a pamphlet in 1968 by the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England, "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" was later republished in some editions of Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a collection of linked works of short fiction. It was used as part of a prank at the 1980 Republican National Convention, at which Reagan received the party's nomination for the 1980 United States presidential election.

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