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...President had settled down in his suite of five large, airy but rather impersonal rooms. It is furnished with several comfortable armchairs, but the President slept on a standard metal hospital bed. Before dropping off, he was put through the battery of tests drearily familiar to anyone who has been prepared for major surgery: chest X ray, electrocardiogram and CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan, a kind of super X ray of a large portion of the body. The scan showed no sign of cancer outside the colon. The tests ended about 11 p.m.; Reagan then read for a while (what...
...Robert Dole on Friday had publicly attacked the White House for "surrendering to the deficit" by dropping its support for the Senate's plan to freeze Social Security benefits for one year. Dole's remark, quoted in the Saturday-morning papers, stirred Reagan's wrath as he lay in bed only two hours away from surgery. He adamantly insisted to Regan that the Senate majority leader, and the public, be disabused of the notion that the White House was caving in. The chief of staff later called Dole to express the President's unhappiness with what Regan described...
...held the document that would effectively make George Bush the acting President of the U.S., Ronald Reagan turned to his wife Nancy and quipped from his hospital bed Saturday morning, "This doesn't mean you can become George's [First] Lady." Despite the levity, the President was aware that this temporary but official transfer of presidential power, the first known in U.S. history, was a complicated matter with serious implications for the future. During the several hours that he would be under anesthesia, and possibly for some time thereafter, the President would be unable to make a decision or discharge...
...Tuesday, an exhausted Keough returned home about 9 p.m., informed his wife Marilyn about the new name, and slumped off to bed. His wife stayed downstairs before joining her husband around 11. Nudging him awake, she told Keough that she liked the new name. He remained awake the rest of the night wondering what he had done...
Stock traders across the U.S. will be rolling out of bed and into the office half an hour earlier this fall. The New York Stock Exchange is extending its hours to accommodate record levels of investment from Europe and Asia. The move, announced last week, was described as a step toward round-the-clock international trading in American stocks...