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...tentative choice--Thomas J. Watson Jr., former president of IBM and ambassador to Moscow--was informed of the situation, and was, Aloian recalled, "very understanding." And President Bok dispatched letters to President Reagan and his deputy chief of staff, Michael K. Deaver. "I can assure you," Bok wrote Reagan, "that we will do our best to arrange the schedule to allow you as much or as little time as you wish at Harvard...
...Commencement ceremonies today, but the strains of "Hail to the Chief" will not mingle with "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." For once, Harvard was on the receiving end of a rejection letter this year instead of the other way around. Presidential deputy assistant Joseph W. Canzeri, an aide to Deaver, called Bok on May 1 with Reagan's answer: no. Scratch Reagan, write in--again--Watson...
...blood pressure and thrice-weekly chest X-rays. His work load last week was limited to two hours a day. For the time being, Reagan's daily official meetings, outside of those with his staff, will be kept to one or two. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "We're going to take it easy...
Fortunately, perhaps, Reagan has always parceled out authority. Even before the shooting, three members of his staff-Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker, and Deaver-had achieved a kind of supereminence. With restrictions on the President's time for months to come, this troika's power will grow more entrenched. It remains to be seen how well this apparatus would serve if events called for a 24-hour-a-day President...
...pair of FBI agents who were piecing together an official picture of the assassination attempt. They were among a stream of visitors who made Reagan's schedule seem chockablock with appointments. Said Hospital Spokesman Dr. Dennis O'Leary: "He likes visitors more than his doctors do." Baker, Deaver and Meese arrived together at 7:15 every morning and spent 15 or 20 minutes supplying a distilled overview of the day's business. Nancy Reagan arrived in time for lunch, and remained at the hospital until 9 at night, slipping in and out between meetings and medical tests...