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...first appointee had no intention of writing odes to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren said in 1986 that he "couldn't write to order" even if asked, and he spent his tenure overseeing the library's poetry collection. Subsequent laureates have used the position to broaden the reach of poetry in America. Joseph Brodsky championed poetry in public places; Robert Hass started an annual student competition; Billy Collins launched a website with a poem for every day of the school year. Ryan isn't yet sure what she's going to do but notes that she is constitutionally...
...speak at this historically charged location and appeared concerned that approving the request would be interpreted as taking sides in the U.S. presidential race. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for his part, welcomed the suggestion that Obama speak at a venue rendered iconic by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, saying it was "a vital expression of German-American friendship...
...satisfied the right-to-life movement's most ardent activists, who feel he has failed to deliver any effective antiabortion legislation. Paul Brown, chief executive officer of the American Life League, a smaller antiabortion group, implicitly conveyed the passions that the issue arouses. ''Our faith in President Ronald Reagan,'' he declared, ''may have been the biggest mistake in the history of the pro-life movement.'' As the 1988 presidential campaign gets off to an early start, the abortion issue seems destined to play a divisive, and possibly even decisive, role...
...moment, the Strategic Defense Initiative is a starry vision rather than an actual weapons program. It exists only in the mind's eye of Ronald Reagan and on the blinking computer screens and slide projectors of an array of purposeful scientists. Yet the President's concept of a space-based shield against nuclear weapons-the most radical plan put forward by any Administration since the dawn of the nuclear age-has become the single most powerful force affecting Soviet-American relations. It is also becoming the chief element in an intensifying showdown, within the Administration as well...
...reporting on that last fellow in the lineup. As part of its deal with Wolper, ABC agreed to provide the others with live coverage of the news portions of the festivities. But the networks, including CNN, disagreed on what constituted news. ABC offered to share its airing of Ronald Reagan's remarks and the lighting of the statue and its torch; the rest of the President's activities, including his presentation of the Medal of Liberty to a dozen famous naturalized citizens, would be carried live only...