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...EM: It was a burden, particularly when the word "Official" was used. Because people instantly thought that I was doing something that Reagan and Nancy Reagan would have to approve, which was never the case. If they'd ever tried to get any control and look at what I wrote, I'd have walked away from the project...
...EM: No. Nancy is preserving a shocked silence...I can recognize her voice in some of the things George Will has been saying--he is her current PR representative. Some one told me the other day that when you go to George Wills' house he has a whole corridor of pictures of Nancy Reagan...
...EM: That's an awful lot of them...
...EM: Maureen Dowd and George Will have both published attacks on the book. There's a rule of life: Never, never never do anything original or inventive in front of people with red hair and thin lips. They always react violently...
...EM: No, in fact I'd already written half of another Theodore Roosevelt volume, which I've put aside. That book eliminates the narrative voice, the editorial voice, to an almost total extent. I wanted to see if I could write a biography of a President who lived between 1901 and 1909 in which there was absolutely no intrusion of the present. The reader gets the feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald...