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Still, it is Regan's emergence that seems certain to keep Washington astir with fresh uncertainties, intrigues and potential clashes. While Treasury Secretary, Regan seemed to relish a good brawl. He butted heads with Volcker and with Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. After seriously considering efforts to kill the council, the President decided last week against such a drastic move. It is clear, however, that Regan will not take kindly to any economic advice that runs counter to his own beliefs. He had, for example, disputed Budget Director David Stockman's gloomy economic estimates. Stockman...
...look in on yet another tricky democratic transition, in tiny Grenada (see following story). But with much of the diplomatic pilgrimage still ahead, a senior U.S. official traveling with the Secretary made the expansive claim that "on the whole, U.S.-Latin relations are doing rather well." In a hemisphere astir with the problems of debt, military menace, and the heady allure of democracy, the notion was comforting but still mercurial...
Presidential aides then turned to the touchy task of notifying key congressional leaders without letting reporters know that something unusual was astir. The leaders quietly slipped into the White House through the old Executive Office Building to the White House basement and up a back stairs. Solemnly, the President laid out his plans and his reasoning, much as he would later do on TV. But as the President finished his explanation, the five leaders sat in hushed silence. Finally House Speaker Tip O'Neill broke it. "God bless you, Mr. President," he said. "And good luck." Tip gently patted...
...epically displays the main clutch of them - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. A few more might be added -Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R. It is too soon to say which, if any, of the recent Presidents will ascend to the same folk pantheon. But the ghosts already there are quite likely astir in the elusive archetypal President...
Anticipating the worst, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott and Cairo Correspondent Dean Brelis had arrived in Tehran two weeks ago. The Iranian capital was already astir; nearly all of the Cabinet ministers that Talbott had been scheduled to see were gone, fired by the Shah. But Talbott found no shortage of political leaders to interview in neighboring Pakistan; they were alarmed by the plight of the beleaguered Shah and the possibility of Soviet intervention. Brelis, meanwhile, went off to the Iranian city of Qum, seat of the restless Shi'ite sect, for talks with rebelling Muslim leaders...