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...have always been a fan of Norman Rockwell's," Reagan said last week when asked about his affection for the artist and his vision of the world. "I was very proud when he asked to do my portrait and was walking on air when I was given the finished portrait. He did it in a suite in the Madison Hotel in Washington. He stood me in the light he wanted from a window, then engaged me in conversation and now and then asked me to turn my head. This is the only Rockwell I have...
...reason all this comes up now is that the President broke his White House rule and agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a $5 million fund drive for a new Rockwell museum being built just outside the artist's beloved Stockbridge, Mass. This was too close to Reagan's heart. White House Counsel Fred Fielding said he would take the heat for turning down the request, which came from Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte. But Reagan insisted: "I want to do it. Norman Rockwell was wonderful...
Another departing Washington official is Agriculture Secretary John Block, who announced that he would leave office in mid-February. One of just four of Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet appointees still on the job, Block, 50, is a likable West Pointer and Illinois hog farmer who had the misfortune of serving during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted...
...report was a joint U.S.-Canadian effort, but its barely diguised aim was to persuade Ronald Reagan that acid rain is a serious problem that requires immediate action, not merely more research. Reagan's repeated refusal to take any steps to curb sulfur-dioxide emissions from U.S. coal-burning factories has been a persistent source of friction between the two nations. The President and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney agreed last winter that Drew Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former premier of Ontario, should suggest a course of action before the next U.S.-Canada summit, scheduled...
...keep studying this thing to death," Lewis said after reporting to the President. But Budget Director Jim Miller asked the obvious question: "Where do we get the money?" The proposal calls for half the funds to come from the Government and half from the polluting industries. Reagan, who has argued privately that acid rain is a natural rather than a man-made phenomenon, promised only to give the report careful consideration. AUTO SAFETY More States Buckle...