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...Burger court is the second oldest in history, with an average age of 70, less than two years younger than the Nine Old Men who made Franklin Roosevelt miserable until they began leaving the court in 1937. The present high bench is "the first ever to have a majority of its members 76 or over," calculates Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even the younger Justices have reached the outer edges of middle age. The youngest, Sandra Day O'Connor, celebrated her 55th birthday last week...
Wanda: You don't mind arguing while I go on up to bed, do you, Ralph? I want to take a peek at my Howard Baker newspaper, set my Ronald Reagan alarm clock and get out the Eleanor Roosevelt margarine to soften overnight for tomorrow morning's unendorsed English muffins, all the while pondering your powerful arguments about Ferraro...
...tense days last week, a crisis involving Ohio's thrift institutions sent tremors of anxiety through the financial world. Governor Richard Celeste's emergency shutdown of 69 privately insured thrifts, which were threatened by customer runs, was the most widespread closure in the financial industry since President Roosevelt declared a one-week national bank holiday in 1933. Ohio's closed-door policy was originally intended to last for only three days. It dragged on through the week as politicians, bureaucrats and bankers haggled around the clock to devise an orderly...
...different. The majesty of the White House, the Marine sentries, the presidential panoply--none of it overwhelmed the audience as it had only a couple of years before. These were a dozen of the nation's top businessmen, and they were worried as they pulled up chairs in the Roosevelt Room with Ronald Reagan, incoming Chief of Staff Donald Regan and their inner circle...
Does Reagan feel it? Maybe, but maybe not. His style of passive leadership perplexes corporate heads and scholars who fancy the way Teddy Roosevelt bounded and blustered his way to success. Reagan waits. He sets the premise, lets the arguments rage, the crisis rise. Often, extraneous issues do get brushed aside, consensus develops, and Reagan steps in to finish the job--and take credit. The technique has worked on tax cuts, NATO missiles and arms control, and may with the MX. Indeed, Reagan fervently believes that his budget as proposed is a package that should be acceptable to Congress...