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...cities, each too good to turn down, a full-time sense of humor, the ability to memorize airline schedules, plus a tolerance for the earaches that come from hours on the telephone. Leisure time is no problem. "The little time off you have you spend commuting," says Helene von Damm, 43, a two-city presidential aide. "By the time you get together, half the weekend is over, and "you have to think about getting back...
...crosses the Rose Garden colonnade to the Oval Office, where he greets his personal secretary, Helene von Damm, with a boast. "Look what I did last night," he says, handing her a plump folder of papers read and signed. Also awaiting him, as they do each morning, are two of his top aides, Edwin Meese and James Baker. "The only reason I'm late," says the leader of the free world, "is that I had to oil my face." Though his Secret Service code name is Rawhide, the Southern Californian is finding it difficult to adjust to central heating...
...Edward N. Brandt Jr. in Austin has gone through. Says Reagan: "I'm calling to ask if you can serve your country as Assistant Secretary of HHS for health." The conversation is a formality; the appointee has already been primed. A few minutes later, near Helene von Damm's desk in the anteroom, Personnel Director Pendleton James is wondering aloud why Reagan did not immediately make one other similar call...
...Damm says that the President found something wrong in the paperwork for the appointment. James and an assistant puzzle over the document for a few moments and then realize that Reagan had spotted an error: an appointee had been listed for the wrong...
...Winter is icummen in," Ezra Pound wrote. "Lhude sing God-damn." And he bemoaned the season: "Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us." Exhorted Pound: "Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM...