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Talk of who might follow him, however, brings up the strongest of all evidence that Reagan will run. The President, who clearly enjoys his job, has confided to close aides that he does not see anyone to whom he could confidently entrust the completion of his ideological mission. Baker, Dole or even Bush, he fears, would not be conservative enough; Kemp has the necessary right-wing fervor, but in Reagan's view may not be mature enough yet for the presidency. To White House Deputy Chief of Staff Deaver, the political calculus is clear: "Who else is there...
...know, having worked with him on five films. Redford caused one of Goldman's projects to be cancelled because, after the phenomenal success of Butch Cassidy, he felt uneasy playing a character who was "kind of weak." During their fourth collaboration. All the President's Men, Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms a "gutless betroyal," Redford allowed Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron to write a completely different draft...
...worsening internal climate inspired pessimism in Rome, where Pope John Paul II for the first time publicly cast doubt on his plans to travel to Poland in June. Praying to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most revered religious image, the Pope said, "To you I entrust if and how [the visit] will take place." The "if," said Vatican officials, reflected the Pope's concern that the recent developments might force him to cancel his visit...
...prime candidate for any major post that fell vacant in the Reagan Administration. "I met no one in public life for whom I developed greater respect and affection," wrote former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Years of Upheaval. "If I could choose one American to whom I would entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz." Soft-spoken and unassuming, Shultz provokes that kind of reaction from most of those who have worked with him. "He does his homework, he hears people out, and he is a consensus maker," says Jack Carlson...
...centralized in the hands of presidential assistants acting in secret from the rest of the Government. My friend David Bruce argued that if I was serious about making our achievements permanent, if I wanted to leave a legacy rather than a tour de force, we would have to entrust greater responsibility to the permanent officials of the State Department and the Foreign Service. This, Bruce suggested, could not happen while I dominated all decisions from my White House office...