Word: electable
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...began a transition that will pick up its pace this week, when the President-elect comes down from the Santa Ynez Mountains. Reagan was scheduled to fly to Washington Monday for the first of three weeklong visits before his Inauguration. At a CIA briefing he will tell Director Stansfield Turner that he will be replaced. On Thursday, Reagan will visit with the man he defeated so resoundingly Nov. 4. While their husbands confer, Rosalynn Carter will show Nancy Reagan around the White House living quarters...
Later, Laxalt reported to Reagan what he had done. "He was pleased," he says. The President-elect then formally gave his blessing to the arrangement that his man on the Hill, acting alone but in full confidence that he knew precisely what his old friend wanted, had quietly worked out behind the scenes...
Last week's cover of the Italian weekly Panorama featured a drawing of America's President-elect wearing a cowboy suit and brandishing a six-shooter. The caption alluded without subtlety to his career in Hollywood: "Ronald Reagan in Il Presidente." During the months before the election, many leaders around the world, including friends of the U.S. as well as its enemies, held the same scathing view of Reagan as being as flashy and light as Hollywood tinsel. But now that he has been elected, some are taking a second and much more hopeful look...
Party regulars reckoned that if Healey won last week's election, Labor could not have avoided an internal battle next year after a special party conference in January establishes a new electoral college to choose the party leader. The college will be dominated by the left-wing local parties and powerful unions. Running under the new rules, Healey might have been beaten by the divisive champion of the party's radical left, M.P. Tony Benn. As it is, the popular Foot is expected to preempt House challenge and sail through vigor the next leadership election virtually unopposed...
Begin had also hoped to meet with Reagan on his visit, and his aides allowed five virtually free days on his schedule so that he could fly to California if the President-elect invited him. But Reagan decided that he would not meet with any foreign leaders before his inauguration in order to avoid any chance of misunderstandings about American policy. Begin could scarcely conceal his disappointment, but he did meet with Richard Allen, Reagan's senior foreign policy adviser, who repeated the President-elect's firm support for the Camp David process as the basis...