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...actions to the President. I invited him to do so and asked for an appointment with Reagan. I felt that the end had come. When we met on Monday, June 14, in the Oval Office, Reagan was hi a troubled mood, his usual sunny countenance drawn into a worried frown. We were alone. "Al," he asked, "what would you do if you were a general and one of your lower commanders went around you and acted...
...related the details of my encounter with Clark. I told Reagan that I believed the cease-fire he had proposed in Lebanon had been delayed, and loss of life needlessly continued, as a result of the petty maneuvering by his staff. As he listened, the President's frown deepened. "Mr. President," I said, "I want you to understand what's going on around you. I simply can no longer operate in this atmosphere. It's too dangerous. It doesn't serve your purposes; it doesn't serve...
...said. "That's the way you get beat. The Orioles didn't get here by quitting, and we didn't either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team on the bench as good as the one on the field...
...attend. But the impatience and the take-it-for-granted-that-the-President-will-perform attitude of the television big shots make one wonder whether, if Reagan had been forced to stay at his White House office and work, there might have been a huge electronic frown directed around the globe. After all, if such TV personalities as Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw can take time off from their duties to attend, then surely a President can do as much. Thank goodness Walter Cronkite has retired. Had he died on the job, his network might have sought...
...aphorists do not enjoy the last frown. Even now, proverb makers are at work. Traditions have to begin somewhere; today folk sayings arise from economics: "There is no such thing as a free lunch"; from the comics: "Keep on truckin' "; and even from computers: "Garbage in, garbage...