We’re not sure if President Reagan kissed the Blarney Stone but he spoke as if he did.
Here he is in Dublin in 1984...
“I also came to the land of my forebears to acknowledge two debts: to express gratitude for a light heart and a strong constitution; and to acknowledge that wellspring of so much American political success: the Blarney stone.
I do not have to tell you how the Blarney stone works: many times, for example, I have congratulated Italians on Christopher Columbus's discovery of America; but that is not going to stop me from congratulating all of you on Brendan the Navigator.”
And again at the first state visit of President Herzog of Israel to America... “It is very difficult, well nigh impossible, to give adequate expression to what one feels on such a moving occasion.
Not even something you and I have in common can help to overcome this difficulty. I'm referring, of course, to the fact that somewhere in our personalities we have a common advantage over many others: that of the gift acquired from the Blarney Stone.”