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...Edwin Meese contact Thomas Kennelly, the lawyer representing Miller. Meese asked for memos from both defendants' lawyers outlining reasons for pardoning them. By March 26 the pardons were signed, but the following week's assassination attempt delayed the announcement. Remarked a joyful Miller: "I certainly owe the Gipper one." Reagan, citing Jimmy Carter's pardon of "thousands" of Viet Nam-era draft evaders, explained: "We can be no less generous to two men who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." But in granting the pardon, Reagan went...
...couch, and reality hits like a sledgehammer. There is "Dutch" Reagan, the Saturday voice out of the cornfields, bringing the Big Ten football games. There is Drake McHugh of Kings Row, right off the screen of the Grand Theater, and Lieut. George Custer from Santa Fe Trail and the Gipper from Knute Rockne, All American and a hundred other boyhood flashbacks. There too is the President of the U.S., still the most powerful single authority in the world...
...good many former Presidents were known as "The" some thing- "The Napoleon of the Stump" (Polk); "The Sage of Wheatland" (Buchanan); "The Squire of Hyde Park." Perhaps Mr. Reagan will come to be known as "The Squire of Rancho del Cielo," or "The Gipper," in reference to his second most memorable movie role, or in reference to the first, "The Rest of Me." New York Builder Donald Trump is called "The Donald" by Mrs. Trump, so we might call Mr. Reagan "The Ronald." It is too early to tell...
From the dying Gipper at Notre Dame to George Custer in Santa Fe Trail, Reagan floated through our lives as a two-dimensional celluloid diversion. He never seemed to change much even when he became Governor of California. There he was in his white suit, eating jelly beans. Old Dutch...
...slices of white cardboard, they hang square-cornered around the room, like paintings for sale in the lobby of a tacky movie theater. All red, white, blue, and black, all a little scary. The B-1: A Necessary Vitamin to Ward Off the Red Disease. Win One for the Gipper: Reagan 1980. Help Put the Laffer Curve to Work for Reagan. Big Government is the Enemy Within. Table SALT. And stretched across the front, in big red letters, Remember the Canalamo...