President Reagan humor

On the way home from work I was listening to the Michael Reagan radio show when he was interviewing the Secret Service agent that had been in charge at President Reagan's ranch after he left office. He had a pretty good story about President Reagan.

I'll paraphrase as best I can and you need to "visualize" as best you can...

President Reagan and the Secret Service head who was in charge "Bob" were ready to mount up one morning for the usual horseback ride when President Reagan asked "Bob" if there were any new agents going on that days ride. "Bob" said yes, there was one who would be joining them who didn't have a lot of experience riding horses yet. The President asked "Bob" to call him over so he could talk to him. "Bob" called "John" on the air phone and said "Rawhide wants to speak with you". That evidently was pretty exciting to John and he proudly headed down to where the President was, which was a ride down a hill and over a ditch from where "John" was. He rode on down the hill, entered the ditch, where his horse stumbled and launched "John" over the horses head. "John" somehow managed to land on his feet, reins in hand. The President, without missing a beat, bent over to "Bob" and said "does he always dismount that way?"

Names changed because I can't remember them...