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Half an hour before Ronald Reagan was scheduled to discuss the nation's money supply with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the President's top aides came into the Oval Office to give a last-minute briefing. While Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff...
While the basketball team was 200 yards away trying to rewrite the tragedy of the last 81 years, the 1984 icemen tried to live down just a single season--or rather, three weeks of brilliant success. In one briefing shining month last year, the Crimson astonished the hockey world by...
How did former President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his October 1980 debate with then Candidate Ronald Reagan wind up in the Reagan camp? The mystery titillated Washington last summer. "Debategate" entered the lexicon, and the inevitable congressional investigation began. The President dismissed the flap as "much ado...
Meanwhile, Feldstein kept calling for tax hikes. That irritated the White House, which had quietly abandoned its contingency-tax proposal. Spokesman Larry Speakes telegraphed the displeasure by telling reporters at a briefing that Feldstein was talking "too often and too much." Stooping to heavyhanded ridicule, Speakes alternately pronounced the economist...
Still, the main targets are journalistic: Columnist Jack Anderson, who according to Powell never proved his claim that Carter associates conspired with Fugitive Swindler Robert Vesco; ABC News, which Powell says refused to correct a false report that the FBI was wiretapping U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft...