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...even if the President shows no signs of turning into a tee-timing Ike or a napping Gipper, his White House remains strangely paralyzed. Its staff has been preoccupied for quite some time with the impending departure of some key players. Chief of staff Erskine Bowles has made no secret of his desire to return home to North Carolina, but the search for his successor has dragged on since spring. Frank Raines, the Budget Director, pre-emptively took his name out of the running, but Clinton is said to be pressing him to reconsider. Meanwhile, a President whose team...
Regula says he fell in love with the 688-acre Rancho del Cielo when he visited in 1990 and Reagan taught him how to build a notched-wood fence. It's hard to find a discouraging word about the project--who wants to be a grinch when the Gipper is ailing? The tightest-fisted among us would not want to turn around and see Rancho del Subdivision--though in this case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust...
...child of the Depression, he first pulled the lever for F.D.R. Then, like the American electorate, he zigzagged between Democrat and Republican: Truman, then Ike, J.F.K. and L.B.J., before deciding that Nixon was the one. He returned to the Democratic fold with Jimmy Carter, voted twice for the Gipper, once for George Bush and then opted for Bill Clinton last time around...
...hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan had the courage of his convictions." He didn't have to mention what everyone knew: Reagan had borrowed his beliefs from Kemp, the Elmer Gantry of supply-side economics...
...story-telling magic (and Herculean marketing efforts), children will see it. Dogs will see it. By taking what could have been a tough story one day when the chips were down and making it into another animated classic, it looks like Disney managed to win one for the Gipper...