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...would on an ordinary Sunday evening. The atmosphere was to be friendly and intimate as the President and Nancy Reagan welcomed a projected 80 million television viewers into their home. Producer Roger Ailes, a trusted old pro, worked to make sure the camera angles were just right. Ken Khachigian, a former Reagan campaign speechwriter known for his rhetorical flair, collaborated on the address. The details had to be perfect, for the President and his wife were going to speak to America on a subject that has emerged as the nation's hottest topic: the fight against drug abuse...
...speech in your pajamas." Reagan let the laughter subside, then read Peter's postscript: "If you have to make a speech in your pajamas, I warned you." More laughter. The letter, part of a class project, had been picked out of mountains of mail by Chief Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, but no one on Reagan's staff knew that the President had decided to read it on television...
Though he may not have been hurdling any tables, Reagan was gradually easing himself back into his job. He placed two dozen or so calls during the week to Congressmen and others to lobby for their support of his economic program. Assisted by Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, he began drafting the address he will deliver this week to a joint session of Congress. He read briefing papers daily and even found time to dip into a book chronicling the physical ailments of previous White House occupants. He also met with eight Governors-seven Republicans and one Democrat, Forrest James of Alabama...
...speech contained no surprises, since the general outlines of Reagan's program had been carefully circulated in advance. The President prepared the address in what is now becoming the usual way. White House Speechwriter Ken Khachigian put together a rough draft, which Reagan reworked sporadically during a Camp David weekend. Crammed as it was with fiscal details, the speech could not display Reagan at his rhetorical best. For once, the master of the TV homily and the after-dinner pep talk appeared not only ill at ease but even a bit defensive, as he spent some of the opening...
...Reagan was also conducting affairs of state, the most important being the preparation of his Inaugural Address. The work began in standard fashion: aides delivered to Reagan copies of every Inaugural speech from George Washington's to Jimmy Carter's, a dozen advisers submitted memoranda, Speechwriter Ken Khachigian prepared a draft. Flying back to California from Washington two weeks ago, Reagan read the pile of paper. Then the old actor, who has a superb inner ear for the crowd-pleasing phrase, put the whole mass aside and started out from scratch on a blank sheet of paper. Said...