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Shamie has received some ribbing during the general election campaign for running an TV advertisement in which the President mispronounced his name 'SHAY-mie.' Reagan yesterday used the gaffe to positive effect, joking, "...and that is 'SHA-mie.' I said it once the other way, but that's all right...

Author: By Michael W. Hirdchorn, | Title: Reagan Woos Youth at Rally | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

The Reagan strategists did not try to conceal their concern that one issue might yet wipe out the President's comfortable lead in the polls, which last week ranged from nine points (Harris) to 25 points (NBC). "The age thing is what we're most scared of," admitted an aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tie Goes to the Gipper | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

As surely as there are voters who consider politics a joke, there are candidates who consider joking good politics. Which is not why former Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson, 43, agreed to be a guest host on Saturday Night Live last week. When some in the black community thought the comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 29, 1984 | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

For a member of the President's Cabinet, the situation could hardly have been more humiliating. Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan walked into a forbidding concrete courthouse in New York City last week to be booked, fingerprinted and photographed like a common criminal. He looked startled when the policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out for the Defense | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

"Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, 'I am only joking!' " Proverbs 26:18-19.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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