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...problems arose to turn Cabinetmaking into a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Reagan clearly wanted to select experienced people, but hard-line conservatives like North Carolina's Jesse Helms opposed having too many "retreads" from the Nixon and Ford Administrations. An added complication was the fact that Reagan intends to govern largely through an executive committee, an "inner circle" of six or so senior Cabinet officers, plus, on appropriate occasions, the directors...
...capital suffused with good feeling, how ever transient. By adroit use of pageantry he effectively communicated an important message: he means to begin as a consensus seeker rather than a hard-edged ideologue, a man who will try to win the cooperation of the permanent establishment rather than govern over its opposition...
Then in June came the death of her younger son Sanjay in a plane crash; through much of the summer Mrs. Gandhi appeared absorbed by grief. Rumors persisted that she was ill, that she had lost her will to govern. This month, however, Indira Gandhi was on the move, doing what she does best: taking her case to the people. In a series of appearances in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the states with a non-Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu...
...make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals fought in the middle of their troops, and when it was almost reasonable for a leader, say Alexander, to pluck a spear from his lung so that he could seize more land than he could possibly govern...
...philosophical moment, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the New York Times: "If people keep getting told that their leadership is poor, or ineffective, and that they don't have any real choices, you'll see a fairly steady erosion in the legitimacy of Government. That's going to have a real impact on anybody's ability to govern-Reagan's or ours...