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...historian's dream: virtually unlimited access to the day-to-day activities of a sitting President to prepare the leader's definitive biography. The news last week was that Author Edmund Morris, 45, who won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, will have the privilege of being Ronald Reagan's shadow for the rest of his term. In the past three weeks, Morris has attended White House conferences, interviewed Reagan and several of his aides and even accompanied the President to Geneva aboard Air Force...
...that, Morris was a somewhat reluctant recruit for the job. State Department Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt gave the Reagans Morris' book on her husband's grandfather, the start of a planned three-volume work. The Reagans enjoyed the book, and in 1983 close aides like Michael Deaver began an ultimately successful two-year courtship of the author. Morris will not write his book until Reagan leaves office, but his agent is already angling for a publisher. The price rumored for the Reagan chronicle: more than $2 million. INDIANS A Mankiller Takes Over...
...whole controversy now seems a little dated, credit Reagan's success in changing the political atmosphere. He has created a tranquil public acceptance of his presidency much like Eisenhower's, while proposing reforms as potentially sweeping as Roosevelt's. This change conditions the behavior of both the right wing and the press. Right-wingers used to argue that Reagan's popularity proved the victory of their ideology. Consequently, any press questioning of Reagan's program was "out of step with the rest of America," and any compromise by Reagan was the fault of pragmatists on his staff who would...
...have Reagan negotiating for us than any other President in memory. In addition to having a remarkably healthy psyche, the President is a moral man with surprisingly accurate instincts about what is good for this country. At least he will not sell our interests down the river as Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman did when they dealt with the Soviet Union at Yalta and Potsdam. Gail Funaro Cerritos, Calif...
Michael Robinson, George Washington University's media scholar, sees a "presidential focus" developing in the mass media. He notes that Franklin Roosevelt was not even quoted at first in some major papers when Germany invaded France in the spring of 1940. "Today," says Robinson, "a White House response is the first sought on anything important. It's changing our political culture...