Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his staff often worked 16-hour days, Reagan usually started work at 9 a.m. and left for home promptly at 5:30 p.m. with a briefcase of homework. Recalls William Clark, who was Reagan's top aide: "He would often break into staff meetings at 5 p.m. and suggest that we all go home to our wives and children. Of course, we couldn...
...care of her husband when he is not campaigning, making certain he does not overwork and gets to bed before 10 p.m. Reagan seems to relish the motherly, don't-forget-your-galoshes attention. With great affection, he calls her "Mommy" and she calls him "Ronnie." Says Nancy Clark Reynolds, Mrs. Reagan's longtime press secretary: "When they hold hands, it's for real...
...Ramsey Clark, then Attorney General, appointed an independent panel of four professors of medicine to study the autopsy materials. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on CIA Activities within the U.S. selected another panel of five physicians to do the same thing last spring. All of the experts on both panels concluded that Kennedy had been struck from above and behind by two shots...
During his long ordeal, Douglas, who has few intimates, confided only in his wife, former Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford and former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who wrote the earlier, misleadingly optimistic press releases on Douglas' health. The four decided that Douglas should get a second opinion from Rehabilitation Specialist Dr. Howard Rusk, who had treated him earlier in New York City. Battling all the way, the old man was determined to miss as little court business as possible, though his appearances on the bench for oral arguments were constantly interrupted by spasms of pain. Two weeks...
...posterity and residual affection as well as his 10% commission, Ben persists in trying to get his Uncle Willy to team up with Al Lewis just one last time. Lewis is really no easier to take than Clark. He is just a little quieter about it. At the first rehearsal the partners spar a little (Clark: "I heard your blood doesn't circulate." Lewis: "It circulates-not everywhere, but it circulates."), then get right down to the acrimony at hand. Clark tries to modify their most famous sketch. Lewis starts to act in all the ways Clark loved...