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...President too was generous with his time. Stacks and Brew interviewed him on a day when he was completing his MX speech, and was hoarse besides. "But Reagan was characteristically gracious and pleasant," says Stacks. "Even as his staff paced the room signaling their desire for an end to the interview, he invited more and more questions...
There are other reasons why Reagan frequently does not hear straight arguments from his aides. An avuncular figure, warm and generous to a fault, Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected...
...heavily on the charity of Houston's private citizens, since the state of Texas is unlikely to provide much help. The Houston Department of Human Resources has printed a pamphlet called Dead Broke in Texas to publicize the stinginess of the state welfare system, one of the least generous in the nation. "Most of those types of people are on their own," says Charles Ternes, department spokesman. "That's why they're living in Tent City-there's no place else for them...
...face lies about the balance of power. When we say there is military parity between the Soviet Union and America we are being tremendously generous to ourselves. A rough parity exists, but you have to understand we have 60% to 70% of your gross national product. If you put America and Western Europe together, we have about 35% of your G.N.P...
...first year of a new multiyear contract. The deal would have required the U.S.W., in effect, to tear up its existing two-year-old contract, which does not formally expire until next August, and sign a new 45-month contract under which the steel companies would set up generous profit-sharing plans for U.S.W. members...