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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times from people writing memoirs: it's a little difficult to engage him in a substantive debate. He had a few relatively simple and straightforward ideas. And in fact I didn't see him much as the second term progressed. ((Chief of staff)) Don Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President was really quite supportive, particularly given the pressures that...
...very good at planning things way in advance, of doing great studies about what should be done over a period of time, because it all seems very abstract. And I find it very easy to be lazy unless something compelling comes along and says, look, goddammit, you've got to act. And it's on your desk and that's it. Then the adrenaline begins running. You're sitting there in the Federal Reserve where you're supposed to do things that aren't all that popular. And to the extent that you have an aura, if that...
...soon learned that "all the women were required to type and the men were not." Recalls another former Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk: "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination...
...Pennsylvania Avenue is more than a change of Zip Codes. As she puts color-coded stickers on the furniture and pictures to signify what goes, what stays and what gets tossed out in this latest move, she is already nostalgic over life as Second Lady. "I got away with murder," says the woman who allowed as how Nancy Reagan should have simply replaced the White House china a piece at a time instead of buying a whole new set, and who suggested that her husband strip down to disprove rumors that he was wounded during a tryst. As she prepares...
...George Herbert Walker Bush have striking yet compatible differences. He hates to quarrel; she once liked it. She kids him about being too big for his britches, especially his style of britches. She particularly goes after the cowboy boots he sports for both day and evening wear. "They've got his initials in gold on the side -- just two of them, not four of them -- and the Lone Star State star. In color." He kids her about suspending the usual rules of conduct when it comes to her English springer spaniel, Millie. "That dog literally comes between us at night...