Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might interfere with her secretarial duties. Hall even rejected the chance to take a screen test because she was just too busy. Said a friend: "She was a good employee, and a good employee does what her employer wants...
...State Department later concluded the stories were unfounded. North tried to persuade Hall to cut off the relationship, but she refused. She ended the affair in November. "She decided Arturo was not the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with," says Tricia Erickson, a close friend...
...secretary in the Navy Department before moving to the NSC in 1983. She returned to the Pentagon in January, perhaps feeling that never again will she have such an exciting job as her assignment with North. "She felt she was at the vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could be Oliver North...
...circuits are overloaded," Mrs. Reagan told a friend. The President could not deal with the rush of events in which his staff members, normally his shield, became adversaries in their unsightly scramble for cover. His ignorance about the issues, his inability to focus on complexity, to sort out chronology, and his shock at the sudden loss of popular affection produced a kind of stupor...
Nancy Reagan measurably moved into power on that singular love of theirs. A person who gathered with the family to talk about the crisis said it was plain that for the moment she was the stronger of the two. "Then her strength made him seem weaker," added this friend. "You want something done?" whispered one of the old California gang during this time. "Then talk to Nancy. When I see them at night, I talk with him about three minutes and with her 20 minutes...