Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulled into the yard Reagan glanced toward his pond. It used to be a mudhole, and Reagan and his closest friend, Willard Barnett, whom he calls Barney, got a black plastic Liner laid across the bottom. Barney, 67, is a rugged, silver-haired man who used to drive for Reagan when he was Governor and is now like a brother. The pond these days is 11 ft. deep and 100 ft. long, and Reagan calls it Lake Lucky...
That fall he tackled his mountain. With Barney and another close aide, Dennis Leblanc, he began driving up from Los Angeles on weekends, carrying sandwiches in a brown bag, working all day and returning that night. They tore off the shabby side porch with its metal roof and framed in a large L-shaped veranda, the room they use the most now. The mountain air was cold that winter, and the fog sometimes so thick they could barely see out the windows. The old roof was pulled away and replaced by red-brown fiber glass tile. One day the wind...
...leave early the next morning for a day at the ranch. He put up a fence made out of used telephone poles, carting in the 22-ft. lengths and chain-sawing them down to 15 ft. for the rails and using the remaining 7 ft. for posts. He and Barney put in a sprinkler system and hauled in beams that they stained and set across the ceilings...
...painting and was astonished to find a live bat, mouse-size and squirmy, clutching the frame. Reagan poked at it with his finger. He recalled another bat that had made its way into the house a couple of years earlier. With Nancy howling in the background, he and Barney had chased that one with a broom and got it out alive. This afternoon Reagan calmly took the painting to the door, flicked it and watched the bat spread its wings wide...
Congressman Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.), however, in mentioning recent Reagan appointments said, "Reagan's a bit naive as to who's who and what's what...