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...MIRROR OF HER DREAMS, Donaldson...
...Salvador for a Friday speech to the National Press Club. Regan logged 23 sessions with newsmagazines, columnists and other journalists, while Poindexter got himself interviewed by representatives of British, French, German, Turkish and Norwegian TV stations. He sought out American reporters so avidly that ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson, approached by Poindexter in a White House corridor, recoiled in mock horror and said, "No, no, you can't force me to interview...
...about whether Reagan had "caved in" to the Soviet Union to secure the release of Nicholas Daniloff. Reagan, in his inimitable style, deflected the question about the Today show by telling NBC's Chris Wallace, "I wasn't watching television." Carter, with a smile, told ABC's Sam Donaldson and the others, "Your questions make me very glad to be a former President...
Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 p.m. presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown...
...many parents, plain old dungarees will not do. At Annelise Plehn's Just So boutique in Washington, D.C., for example, some customers are willing to spend $483 for a pink silk taffeta party dress for eight-year-olds. Comments Stuart Robbins, a retail analyst with the Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm: "Children's apparel and accessories are now a fashion business, not the commodity business they were when the baby-boom generation was growing...