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...ashen-faced Stockman called a press conference and announced that he had offered the President his resignation but that Reagan had refused it. With uncharacteristic humility, the budget director apologized publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he said, had given him a verbal thrashing. "My visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the President was more in the nature of a visit in the woodshed after supper," Stockman said. "He was not happy about the way this has developed-and properly...
...most poignant moment in the Administration's brief history. On Tuesday afternoon, Ronald Reagan, with an ashen-faced Nancy at his side, stepped out from the foyer of the White House State Floor to the North Portico, there to issue a brief statement on the death of a "close and dear friend," whom they had welcomed to the White House just two months before. There was grief and anger in Reagan's voice as he denounced the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat as "an act of infamy, cowardly infamy." The shock and concern of official...
...Franciscans will forget the ashen face of Dianne Feinstein, 47, on the day she became acting mayor in November 1978. Just nine days earlier, the Guyana massacre had jolted the city, which had been the nurturing ground of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple. Now it was Feinstein's terrible duty to announce that Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, a homosexual member of the board of supervisors, had been assassinated by a disgruntled former board member. As president of the board, Feinstein became acting mayor. "I found myself into the politics of assassination," she recalls. It was a "very...
...hands over his body, under his arms, his back." He detected no wound. The limousine was less than 15 seconds away from the Hilton when Reagan said again that his ribs hurt. "He complained of having some problems with his breathing," said Parr. "He was getting an ashen color. Then he started to cough up some blood. My first impression was that somehow a rib had broken and punctured a lung." Reagan had the same mistaken idea. He later said: "It hurt, but I thought it was a broken...
Four musicals of the past decade - Company, Follies, A Chorus Line and Ballroom - give a show like Woman of the Year the ashen patina of Pompeii. Those musicals released themes and prompted questions of resonance. Whence came the ravaged joys of marriage? How may one survive the illusions of youth and the disenchantments of middle age? Did the dance of life do for me what I did for love? And how may one dance under the pin drift of mechanical Stardust without the pipedream of romance...