![]() ![]() Reagan thanked him and told Schulz what a fan he was and also mentioned how much he loved the football gag. “Some time in the 1970s, (Schulz) met then-Governor Ronald Reagan and presented him with the original art for a baseball strip - baseball was Schulz’s favorite sport. ![]() Per Clark, the reason why Schulz returned to this formula over and over again was because the fans loved it - including the most famous ones. Little more than a decade later, a particularly funny Sunday strip featured Lucy telling Charlie Brown exactly what she was going to do: “When you come running up to kick it, I’m going to pull it away.” Charlie Brown, not listening, tried anyway, and when Lucy delivered on her word, she chided him with, “Men never really listen to what women are saying, do they?” “That’s also why Lucy took on a more feminist stance over time.” ![]() “Back then, women couldn’t even take out a credit card in their own name, so this was Schulz’s way of commenting on that injustice,” Clark explains. ![]()
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