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...strode through the corridors of power thwarted, in his account, by political nincompoops who never grasped what policy was all about. He has hardly met another presidential aide he did not disdain. He labored unsuccessfully to educate a dotty President in the fundamentals of economics, only to have poor Ronald Reagan ignore "the palpable, relevant facts" and wander in circles...
Stockman contends that Reagan was not a revolutionary and should never have tried to change the U.S. Government dramatically. That's an odd revelation. Anyone who spent four years as a Congressman should know that Presidents do not win power by planning to discard totally the American past. Ronald Reagan never suggested he intended to dismantle two centuries of American tradition. Nevertheless, the Reagan Administration has brought enough change to Washington to be called a revolution, at least in the patois of journalists...
...years Paul Laxalt has played the supporting role of best friend to Ronald Reagan's star turn as leading man. His performance has been a polished one: the crisp, affable, silver-haired Nevada Senator has headed Reagan's presidential campaigns and become an essential backstage adviser to the man he used to go camping with when both were Western Governors. But now the script has the leading man retiring. As Laxalt, 63, surveys the potential replacements, he has begun publicly pondering that most common question of both politicians and second leads...
Before leaving for Moscow, the Horowitzes were invited to Washington to meet Ronald Reagan for a presidential "benediction." Traveling with the couple was TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, who provided this glimpse behind the scenes...
...rivalry in history, personalizing the complex issues involved. It was their second meeting in less than a year, and it was intended to provide what the Soviet leader called an "impulse" for future meetings in Washington and Moscow. Though they clashed in Reykjavik over Star Wars, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan still might end up encountering each other more frequently than Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev did during the heyday of détente...