Word: regan
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Senior White House Correspondent Barrett Seaman was six miles above the Atlantic when he got his first look at Donald Regan's book For the Record. It was a heady experience. "I had been asked to read the manuscript and offer an opinion as to whether TIME ought to publish excerpts from it," recalls Seaman, who took the memoirs of the former White House chief of staff along on a vacation to the Bahamas last March. "Settling in for the flight to Nassau, I picked up the text. Not a minute later, almost involuntarily, I let forth a cry that...
...water, and the sharks would go on a feeding frenzy," he says. "For a week or so, I felt almost like an Administration insider trying to keep a scoop away from my colleagues." Seaman's work benefited from the experience gained in half a dozen years of dealing with Regan. "I first met him when I was TIME's Washington news editor and he was Treasury Secretary," says Seaman. "He was more engaging than I expected from reading about him." By 1985, when Regan swapped jobs with White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Seaman was covering the White House...
...DONALD Regan, in the latest of the kiss-and-tell books on the Reagan Administration, revealed the regular use of astrology by the man who once said "trees cause pollution, too." Coverage in the media focused first on the practice's humorous aspects, the absurd images of Nancy Reagan and her faithful seer organizing the President's daily schedules according to the movements of the planets. I laughed until I cried...
...after repeated clashes with the First Lady over schedules, longtime Reagan aide Michael Deaver told the chief of staff about the astrologer and advised Regan to "humor" the First Lady, he said...
...green ink for 'good' days, red for 'bad' days, yellow for `iffy' days) as an aid to remembering when it was propitious to move the President of the United States from one place to another, or schedule him to speak in public, or commence negotiations with a foreign power," Regan wrote...