Word: oval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this stage, the odds are not high that Reagan will change his habits enough to ensure success. But it will be a bitter irony if the man who did so much to restore leadership to the Oval Office in the end fails to provide it when it is most needed...
...Reagan's former National Security Adviser Richard Allen to press its case. Deaver tells Philip Morris that he has a close relationship with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, whose 1981 state visit to Washington he arranged. Deaver goes on to describe how he and Chun embraced in the Oval Office. His fee: $150,000. Deaver goes to Seoul, is treated like a dignitary, meets the President and other top leaders, and links the cigarette issue to pending trade matters. In addition, the company retains Michelle Laxalt, daughter of then Senator Paul Laxalt, a close friend of the President...
...crisis may be over when the first good news appears. Don't predict the future in speeches and statements. And don't get overly concerned when reports come in of a drop in the sales of big luxury items like automobiles. Just keep the night-lights on in the Oval Office...
...Capitol Hill, where he had once been Republican Senate leader, and phoning people on Wall Street, including New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Phelan, to get market reports. At 3:40 p.m., 20 minutes before the close of trading, the chief of staff and Duberstein called at the Oval Office to give Reagan a market status report. But prices were tumbling too rapidly for anyone to keep track of them. Reagan, as his later statements indicated, simply did not know what to make of the crash...
Arias was just as stubborn in his efforts to drum up support for his plan, campaigning in Boston and New York as well as Washington during an eight-day visit. The most important stop and clearly the most difficult was the Oval Office. In a 20-minute chat, Arias and Reagan struggled to avoid stumbling over their obvious disagreements. The two Presidents were able to join in endorsing a proposal for $3.5 million in nonlethal U.S. aid for the contras. The appropriation, approved the following day by the House, is intended to tide them over until the Nov. 7 start...