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After careful consideration, Reagan became the first President ever to transfer power formally to his Vice President. The one-page letter he signed was originally drafted in longhand by White House Counsel Fred Fielding in consultation with Attorney General Edwin Meese and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. Based on the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the letter was designed to provide an orderly conveyance of power while Reagan was under anesthesia and at the same time avoid causing undue public alarm by invoking the Constitution...
...resignation, to take effect at the end of this month, was not unexpected. Indeed, the real surprise may be not that Stockman left but that he lasted so long. Particularly after his rival Donald Regan became White House chief of staff last January, Stockman's days were numbered. Yet unfortunately for the White House, the announcement coincided with the climax of negotiations on the budget for fiscal 1986. "The timing was very awkward," said one official. "It added a complication at a very delicate moment." It came during a week in which Reagan threw in the towel on restraining middle...
Even after the decision to bring back Classic Coke, company officials were still not quite sure what had hit them. "We did not understand the deep emotions of so many of our customers for Coca-Cola," said President Donald R. Keough. "It is not only a function of culture or upbringing or inherited brand loyalty. It is a wonderful American mystery. A lovely American enigma. And you cannot measure it any more than you can measure love, pride or patriotism...
Vice President George Bush did not get to pay a post-operative call on Ronald Reagan until last Wednesday, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane not until Thursday. But Chief of Staff Donald Regan shuttled between his White House office and the Bethesda bedside all week, constituting, with Nancy Reagan, the President's principal contact with the outside world and becoming, for all intents and purposes, the chief operating officer...
...some of the criticisms are entirely valid. Reagan's highly conservative speechwriters, led by Patrick Buchanan, have been indulging the President's penchant for oratorical excess to a damaging extent. Before her husband's surgery, Nancy Reagan complained about the speechwriting operation during a private talk with Donald Regan, who conceded that tighter editing was required. Who will do it is the question. Regan has no time and little sensitivity to seek out nuances. There is no other senior aide with both the authority and the keen judgment to wield a blue pencil as effectively as Richard Darman, now Deputy...