Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GAMBLING WITH HISTORY by Laurence I. Barrett Doubleday; 511 pages...
...opportunities for reporters to ask Reagan impromptu questions. Ranking officials sometimes pride themselves on being unhelpful, and-in a futile White House attempt to stem unwanted leaks-for a time all but half a dozen of them were to be barred from talking off the record. Nonetheless, Laurence I. Barrett seems to have established access to the President and his men and to have got them to open...
...Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...
...John S. DeMott. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and David Beckwith/Washington
...Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Lawrence Malkin/Williamsburg