Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Lady considered Regan's tight management hierarchy a welcome change after the occasional disarray of the troika that ran the first- term White House. But she became annoyed when the overbearing chief of staff seemed to arrogate presidential decision-making responsibilities to himself during Reagan's convalescence from cancer surgery...
...look back now," says a political aide, "and I don't think he felt up to it." Reagan had been through a cancer operation the year before, and his prostate trouble was on his mind. Then came Iran. Never before in his long, successful political career had he faced such trouble. He shrank from it. He dithered. His memory on little things and some big things blanked out, a sign of aging...
...perform -- except on Johnny Carson. He said I looked like a loose woman. My mother, on the other hand, thought I could do no wrong. One night she sneaked out to see The Rose, and she thought it was wonderful. She died the next year, of liver cancer. She had also had breast cancer, twice. My father died of heart trouble last May. It was too bad. It was just...
...hours of testimony, McFarlane strongly reiterated that Reagan had authorized the 1985 shipments -- at a meeting, ironically, in Bethesda Hospital, where the President was recuperating from his colon-cancer operation. McFarlane quoted the President as saying, "I want to get the hostages out. If the Israelis say we can do it, let's try." McFarlane added that Regan (who McFarlane believes is out to get him) was at the meeting...
...also wrote, addressing his roommate, whom he said cooperated with police investigation efforts: "I hope you get cancer from your alarm clock...