Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Secretary-designate might have been writing a description of himself. His long service to Reagan made it inevitable that he would wind up in the Cabinet, and he was considered for several jobs, including Treasury and State. He got Defense primarily because, said an adviser, "the President-elect has plenty of strategists. What he needs at Defense is someone who will run the place...
...last week that he would like to enjoy the same relationship with Ronald Reagan that Bobby Kennedy had with his brother John. Indeed, Smith, who has been Reagan's attorney for 15 years and handles his business affairs, is almost as close as a brother to the President-elect. Claiming that the post-Watergate barriers erected between the President and the Attorney General are too restrictive, Smith wants an "easier" relationship. Says he: "J.F.K. and R.F.K. didn't have any crises, and I would hope that we wouldn't have any crises either...
...known as Mac Baldrige, a steer roper who finishes in the money about a third of the time (for $1,605 in prizes last year). To the uninitiated he is Malcolm Baldrige, chairman of Scovill Inc., a power in Connecticut Republican affairs and a close friend of Vice President-elect George Bush's. As Ronald Reagan's choice for Secretary of Commerce, Baldrige will bring to Washington -a proven capacity for managing, along with the practice lasso he keeps by his desk...
While Reagan made two forays out of his Pacific redoubt to remind the world of his smile and desire to work with Congress and other powerful people, he has talked very little. The flow of commentary on appointees, world events and national issues that Presidents-elect in other times have been lured into has been avoided. His image is compressed and contained, drawn deliberately and somewhat vaguely as the power that is felt behind the stage, emerging only for the big bows. That protected position also helps reduce wear and tear on a President who truly intends to change directions...
Sorrow was expressed, sympathies extended by everyone from Presidents and Presidents-elect, Prime Ministers and Governors and mayors to hundreds of fans who gathered at the arched entryway...