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Although it has been rather tiring, sticky and unpleasant working on a lawn crew, or on an assembly line, or even in a warehouse, these brief but terrifying glimpses of the real world have also been educational. The first thing I learn each summer is that I have to work, and I am absolutely incompetent when...
Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 p.m. presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown...
...Mexican optimism was well founded. After a talk that lasted nearly three hours, Reagan and De la Madrid stepped onto the South Lawn of the White House eager to stress the positive. Applauding the "determined and valiant effort" of the Mexican government and people to reverse their economic misfortunes, Reagan said the "Government of the U.S. is ready to extend a hand whenever and wherever it is necessary." In response, an unusually relaxed De la Madrid extolled "an extraordinary effort to better the atmosphere of our relations." As a small symbol of their neighborly feelings, Reagan and De la Madrid...
...Davenport, Iowa, Mayor Thom Hart held a cookout at his house: pork sandwiches, fruit and five different kinds of potato salad. During a press conference on the front lawn, Grechko started taking pictures of all the cameras that were focusing on him. Neighbors came by, and everyone had a good time. A young guy, in old jeans, a T shirt and long dark hair, was impressed. "It's like a rock concert," he said, which it wasn't. "You can feel the good vibes," which you could...
...Will, whose protagonist is an American hostage. The situation is familiar ("I'm sitting in a foreign country/ In an army barracks hidden in the hills/ I've been here for nearly seven months now"), but the sentiments are not likely to get the Del-Lords invited to a lawn party at the White House: "It wasn't my vote that put the cowboy on the hill/ But I'm the Devil of the West himself/ To a band of wild-eyed men/ Now in the name of God we're being held against our will...