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...Medical School area. He also acted as a bodyguard to several dignitaries, including recently-deceased Loeb University professor emeritus Archibald Cox ’34 while he acted as special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Britain’s Prince Charles, members of the Kennedy family and presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush...
...there to give their salutes and mumbled little tributes to this man they thought of as a neighbor. The Washington National Cathedral was filled with the world's power fraternity, including President George W. Bush and all the living former Presidents--Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Ford--and some who had tried but failed--Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale. After the service, Reagan's casket was clamped to the floor in the back of a plane that is used as Air Force One, and he began his journey home with family, old friends and staff...
...been when beginning his presidency. Reagan countered with a joke: "Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations, and you choose the one that will get you home at 9 o'clock." Campaign manager John Sears, the Washington lawyer and strategist who had helped Reagan nearly unseat Ford in 1976, believed Reagan should remain aloofly "presidential." The principal result was that he lost the first big contest, the Iowa caucuses, to hard-driving George Bush. With the whole campaign at stake in the upcoming New Hampshire primary, Reagan shifted to the grittier strategy known among aides as "letting...
...been four years earlier. And there was little doubt about the answer. At the time, America's diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, a rescue attempt had crashed in flames in the desert, and the Army--by its generals' own admission--was going "hollow." Though Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter had all promoted the development of new weapons systems--the MX missile, F-117 fighter, the B-2 bomber, the M1 tank--it was under Reagan that those programs bore fruit, along with a mighty, imaginary weapon born all of Reagan's own instincts...
...President his party had ever moved into the White House. Make no mistake. By Republican standards, Richard Nixon was middle-of-the-road. He believed his job was not to dismantle the New Deal but to manage it more effectively than the Democrats did. And by those lights, Gerald Ford was no better, naming the ur-moderate Nelson Rockefeller, the bogeyman of the Republican right, his Vice President...