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While Americans tended the last barbecues and soothed the final sunburns of the summer, their leader retired to California for a few weeks of rest and recuperation. Television projected the familiar--if not blurry--image of a vigorous Reagan reposing at his mountaintop ranch. Patient camera crews perched on a neighboring peak even captured the man on horseback, defying the cancer removed from his bowel a month earlier...
...occasion has become an annual tradition that marks the end of summer: a ranch outing in California given by the President for members of his staff, local Republicans and the traveling press corps. Looking serene and relaxed in his cowboy duds, Ronald Reagan chitchatted his way through a crowd of nearly 500, posing patiently for pictures with spouses and children. On one of the final days of his vacation, the President gave no indication that yet another testing time awaits his Administration when official Washington returns to business this week. A seemingly uncertain White House faces an unusual confluence...
...Reagan, still recuperating from his July cancer surgery, absorbed the urgency of the situation? Stuart Spencer, Reagan's longtime political consultant and one of the rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the President's habitual optimism. Spencer brushed off forebodings that Reagan's second term might be slipping into the kind of doldrums that affected Dwight Eisenhower's last four years, starting in 1957. "Eisenhower was tired of being President," Spencer argued. "This guy loves it and works at it. He's a different...
...Reagan's aides, camped out in Santa Barbara, some 30 miles down the mountain from the ranch, it was time to take marching orders from Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who has emerged as the undisputed boss in a once loose hierarchy of advisers. White House staffers have been noticeably less leaky this summer as they dine on the expense accounts of the news-hungry White House press corps. Only McFarlane has managed to retain some autonomy, by virtue of his foreign policy expertise and willingness to speak...
Washington charges the kgb with using "spy dust" and decides to test a new antisatellite weapon, as superpower relations grow chillier. Reagan rests up + at the ranch and braces for a taxing...