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...guff, through all the tedium." But a Baker departure would affect his role as White House lieutenant. "The President's going to have to do his own selling," says a Republican Senator. "We'll be less inclined to put our careers on the line for the Gipper...
...week at a campaign gala at the Peoria Civic Center, also featuring Charlton Heston and Pat Boone. Scoffed an aide to Stephens, on whose behalf such Democrats as Walter Mondale and John Glenn have made campaign appearances: "They must be running scared if they have to bring in the Gipper, Moses and Mr. Clean all together." But while Michel is not expected to carry home town Peoria, businessmen and farmers elsewhere in the district should provide enough votes to make him a 14-term Congressman...
...Switching courses slightly does not remove the impact of the third tax cut or the military's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. Don't forget that when Ronald Reagan, playing the legendary halfback George Gipp, asked that a Notre Dame team win "one for the Gipper," he was a goner...
...Yank who has a prairie heritage, has a beautiful wife in rhinestones and knickers, and is fun at a dinner party has a lot going for him. The very for Reagan can do is go out as he did in the old days to win one for the Gipper. He was doing O.K. when we last saw him in Versailles's majestic Hall of Mirrors...
...living quarters on the second floor of the Executive Mansion. He had refused to accept even a phone call from the President last month before his vote against the AWACS sale at a meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee. "I didn't want to get caught with the Gipper in the locker room at half time," he explained. But now the Nebraska Democrat was prepared to discuss the issue. He settled into one of the comfortable armchairs in the seductive red-carpeted study overlooking the South Lawn of the White House...