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Another who got the full Reagan treatment was Nebraska Democrat Edward Zorinsky. He has been wooed before. Back in 1978, when the Panama Canal Treaty was in the works, Jimmy Carter invited Zorinsky and 190 of his fellow Nebraskans to the White House for a briefing, had Rosalynn Carter call...
Saying he is "not sure it'll be made public," Klitgaard stressed that the report remains "a briefing document" intended "not to say what we ought to do... but to point out the facts."
To give the Presidents a touch of the old class, Canzeri had rustled up matches with their names printed on the covers along with the Presidential Seal. Briefing books on the funeral (unclassified) and on the political dangers following Sadat's death (classified) were neatly laid out in the...
But Washington's optimism soon turned to gloom. Just after 9 a.m. Reagan received his first detailed briefing from National Security Adviser Richard Allen. As Allen described the attack, Reagan mumbled repeatedly, "Good Lord, good Lord." At 11:15 a.m. the White House Situation Room confirmed that Sadat was dead...
In the shock and upheaval that followed the Sadat assassination, one prime initial suspect as the instigator of the crime was inevitable: Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. In a closed-door briefing for U.S. Congressmen, Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week noted that the exultant broadcasts of Radio Tripoli hailing...