Ronald Reagan once roasted Frank Sinatra by pretending to endorse him for President of the United States:Reagan opens by acknowledging that Sinatra had been a loyal political ally:"This is Frank Sinatra's night and I'm here out of gratitude. Frank worked for me in all my campaigns. He was with me all the way to the governor's mansion. Without his help, who knows? I might have been president."He then jokes about the rivalry he had lost to be there that night:"When this program was being planned,

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