Word: eyeful
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From his New York office, John Stacks, deputy chief of correspondents, coordinated TIME's coverage with an eye sharpened by experience as the magazine's Washington news editor during the Watergate crisis. A White House correspondent in 1982, Stacks grew familiar with Reagan's management style. Says he: "Reagan seems to have been in less control of his White House than Nixon was, so it is possible to believe Reagan's denials of involvement. Another difference is that this Administration seems to be moving to investigate itself...
Created in 1947, the NSC was mandated to "advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign and military policies." It is supposed to function as a clearinghouse for security matters, evaluating data from the State Department, the Pentagon and other agencies with an eye to making policy recommendations to the President. The council itself consists of the President, Vice President and Secretaries of State and Defense, with the director of the CIA and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff serving as advisers. As recently as John F. Kennedy's Administration, the NSC was a relatively small...
...away with his approach to the presidency. In fact, he managed to convince the public, and even some of his critics, that it was part and parcel of his magic for dynamic leadership. Like his policies or not, it felt right to have a President who kept his eye on bold initiatives and left the details to experts. Certainly mistakes were made, and in the field of foreign policy in particular the Administration often seemed to be speaking in a cacophony of quarreling voices that the President could not or would not harmonize. But on the whole the results appeared...
...Page as a kind of Garden of Eden, an unspoiled idyll of frantic competition and luxuriant dissipation in an era when reporters worried about the price of a shot and a beer, not the tax consequences of a vacation home and an individual retirement account. In the mind's eye, the rowdy tabloid reportage of Chicago in the Roaring Twenties seems vivid, creative and a whole lot more fun than today's sober pursuit of facts and reasoned analysis. But 58 years of interpretation, including three film versions, may have been wrongheaded: a crackling revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...happy to have him back so he can keep an eye on things around here," said Dr. Robert M. Neer '57, associate professor of medicine...