Word: brewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events constitute only a modest part of their daily duties. Much of their information comes from private conversations with officeholders, who often provide background or personal observations. For this week's cover story on the inner workings of the Reagan Administration, White House Correspondents Laurence Barrett and Douglas Brew drew on knowledge built up over months of reporting on Reagan and his executive "troika"-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. Says Barrett: "To know how the minds of these men work it is necessary to spend time with them...
...Brew's association with Reagan and his staff dates back to last year, when he occasionally pinch-hit for Barrett on the Reagan campaign trail. Brew stood watch outside Reagan's Pacific Palisades home during the presidential transition period. Since then he has reported on the President's Inauguration, the attempted assassination, and his Thanksgiving at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara. "Reagan keeps a civilized 9-to-5 schedule and doesn't take off at the drop of a hat to strange places around the world," says Brew. "His aides may have bloodshot eyes, drawn...
...Coach John Madden, ex-Baltimore Slugger Boog Powell and retired New York Jet Matt Snell. Off-camera the jocks disputed the merits of their various sports. "The baseball people make fun of football, and the football people make fun of baseball," says Madden. None of the high spirits were brew-inspired, he said, adding: "We never drink the props...
...Magnuson. Report ed by David Beckwith and Douglas Brew/ Washington
...regular guests, Entertainer Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues as the lack of parking space at doughnut restaurants...