Lynne Palmer

— EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK —
YEARS OF MINUTES
by Andrew A. Rooney
HARDCOVER – October 2003
Page 116
I’ve always been interested in astrology… the same way I’m interested in a lot of other things… things like flying saucers, weeping statues of the Virgin Mary, the Loch Ness monster, poltergeists, fortune tellers, faith healers… I’m interested because they’re all nonsense.
Several years ago I interviewed Jeane Dixon, who is reported to have been the first astrologist whom Nancy Reagan relied on for guidance.
ROONEY: Isn’t it almost un-American of you not to give the State department your best advice?
JEANE DIXON: Oh, would I love to have the State department ask me for advice. If they did, Mr. Rooney, I can tell you that this Country would not be in the trouble it is today. I can tell you that because if you knew the things I have told the State department… that I have written to the Presidents of the United States. Sometimes they take the advice and sometimes they do not.
ROONEY: The other day I asked Lynne Palmer, an astrologist in New York City, what she thinks is coming up for President Reagan in the immediate future.
LYNNE PALMER: Starting the fifteenth of this month, he’s got some upsets in, you know, with astrology and the whole thing.
ROONEY: What kind of thing do you think is apt to happen?
LYNNE PALMER: Well, you know, he’s got a lot of shocks and surprises and he many not be as charming as normal. He may be a little erratic coming up from the fifteenth of this month to the fifteenth of next month.
ROONEY: But you’re comfortable having the United States guided by a man who takes advice from astrologists?
LYNNE PALMER: Well, I think he’s a wonderful President.