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...wood-paneled office last week, with his favorite oil painting of a bald eagle on the wall, Watt still seemed like the raw boy from his windy prairie country of southeast Wyoming. Long-legged in his gray plaid suit, he ambled down the hall and pointed out the huge office where Harold Ickes used to work in F.D.R.'s day and remarked that he could never be comfortable there. Back in his own much smaller suite, he stretched out and began talking about his job, about his goals, about himself. As he spoke, he gradually became more emphatic, some...
Ronald Reagan does not wear plaid suits very often anymore; he looks very presidential. Even his oft-parodied pompadour seems more subtle than in the past. He is a man of profound wrinkles, cavernous creases that make him the embodiment of the weathered but healthful land he calls home...
...look over the railing. Down near ringside someone has spilled beer on the man in front of him. Spilled beer all over the plaid jacket and the girlfriend's llama coat. The man in the plaid jacket is angry. He is shouting and brushing the beer off his jacket. He jabs his finger at the man with the beer in an expression of anger...
Though neither of the Reagans is a fashion plate, both dress with assurance and a keen sense of what is appropriate for almost every occasion, be it a barbecue on their California ranch (top-of-the-line cowboy garb), a press conference (Ron may be in plaid jacket and slacks, Nancy in a preppie blazer and skirt) or a fund-raising banquet (business suit for him, cocktail dress...
...President has three basic wardrobes: cowboy, country club casual and what is sometimes called "California executive." Though he raised a few traditionalist eyebrows by wearing a restrained-even distinguished-blue-and-red plaid sports jacket on a recent trip to Washington, his generally tweedy coats and dark slacks look smart and comfortable. His business suits, in grays, browns and blues, are skillfully tailored but have a faintly old-fashioned look. One reason is that his broad shoulders and erect posture make his jackets look overly padded...