Word: confidantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Christmas brought no respite. Ronald and Nancy Reagan exchanged gifts (a red robe for her, a horse blanket for him) and on Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would...
If he were in trouble and had just one phone call to make, Ronald Reagan was once asked, whom would he dial? He answered unhesitatingly with two words: Ed Meese. So it was hardly surprising last week that Reagan, facing the most serious crisis of his presidency, would turn to...
On the evidence of his letters, Thomas went on clutching his damp adolescent convictions until, some 20 years later, he died of drink and complications in a New York City hospital. The task of being a law unto himself entailed the remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers...
This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's...
The crisis was a bruising political setback for Mitterrand. And Hernu was a special loss. The 62-year-old former magistrate is a longtime confidant of the President's. Hernu almost single-handedly persuaded the Socialist Party in 1976 to support the French nuclear force de frappe, which it had...