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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was ready to go off on a dinner date with Senator Paul Laxalt when the telephone rang in his Plaza suite. The caller was William Casey, Reagan's campaign director. Could Kissinger come over to Casey's rooms in the Plaza? When he got there, he was welcomed by Casey, Reagan Aide Michael Deaver and Edwin Meese, Reagan's chief of staff. Quite succinctly, Meese explained that Reagan very much wanted Ford on the ticket and asked if Kissinger would help persuade Ford to consider running. In fact, Meese noted, time...
...with a proposal that he had so often rejected might just irritate him. It would be better, Kissinger suggested, for him to raise the matter later that night during a relaxed visit that both had planned on a yacht docked on the Detroit River near the Joe Louis Arena. Casey agreed that Kissinger should handle...
...Reagan forces also overruled right-wing objections to Henry Kissinger's participation in the convention. Because of all the protests, the former Secretary of State decided not to appear before the platform committee, but William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, insisted that Kissinger be allowed to address the convention. "He's earned the right to speak," said Casey. "He's been a good soldier for the party." Much to right-wing dismay, Reagan scheduled a session with Kissinger this week...
...what extent Reagan controls the right-wing zealots in the G.O.P. will become clearer in the coming weeks, but his key aides were doing their best to play down the preconvention controversies. "A good fight or two might be helpful," said Campaign Manager Casey. Indeed, the more significant and surprising news is that the Republicans have by and large stopped sniping at each other. Richard Whitney, 60, a Reagan delegate who is a Colorado dairyman, declares: "We have to have all philosophies in the party to win. We are trying to embrace more people. We don't have much...
...there is also a distinctly contem porary aspect to back trouble. As people grow more and more sedentary in an increasingly automated world - doing most work sitting down, adding extra pounds of girth - their backs become ever more vulnerable to injury. Ex plains Dr. Kenneth Casey, a pain specialist at the University of Michigan: "Low-back pain is largely a social problem. It's as much due to the way we live as anything else...