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Shortly after noon on Saturday, July 20, President Ronald Reagan walked out of Bethesda Naval Hospital and into a changed world. With a golden career and a life of good health behind him, the 74-year-old President now faced the full impact of his mortality and a future marked by constant vigilance against the recurrence of his cancer. For the first time in its history, the U.S. faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency...
...legendary that it was tempting to believe he would again beat the odds, that the polyp in his bowel would be found benign. But last week Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the chief of surgery at the National Institute of Cancer, reminded the nation in a single chilling sentence that Ronald Reagan is a vulnerable human after all. "The President," stated the doctor, "has cancer...
Vice President George Bush did not get to pay a post-operative call on Ronald Reagan until last Wednesday, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane not until Thursday. But Chief of Staff Donald Regan shuttled between his White House office and the Bethesda bedside all week, constituting, with Nancy Reagan, the President's principal contact with the outside world and becoming, for all intents and purposes, the chief operating officer...
...rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know we can't do it without Ronald Reagan," the Majority Leader said. "We could probably do it without Don Regan...
Sessions between White House spokesmen and reporters often include a sharp word or two, but the briefings by Larry Speakes on Ronald Reagan's health, which sometimes seemed more like sparring matches than news conferences, have highlighted some frailties of the President's press office and its tense relationship with the often abrasive White House press corps. The tone was set when Speakes distributed copies of the letter temporarily transferring presidential powers to Vice President George Bush but refused to read the missive on live television. The ensuing chaos embarrassed all involved: while TV reporters in the front row faced...