Word: ruge
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...Secretary of Education, T.H. Bell, and his Attorney General, William French Smith, have planned to leave for some time, but the bulk of his Cabinet will carry on. Reagan's physician, Daniel Ruge, has been training a replacement, Los Angeles Physician Burton Smith, for more than a year. There will be other changes, some expected and some not. But they will be ripples on a tranquil surface. When a man is over a certain age, Harry Truman noted, change is not that welcome. At 73, forget it. Reagan may have produced a landslide, but he is really a glacier...
...gray has crept timidly through Reagan's lush head of hair. An aide half his age examining the presidential locks in the Cabinet Room the other day felt his own thinning strands and lamented that he did not know the Reagan secret. Ruge says Reagan shows no signs of stress. His blood pressure and heart rate are the same as they were when he walked through the front door of the White House...
Reagan at first tried to deflate the issue with quips. "I'll challenge him [Mondale] to an arm wrestle any time," he joked. Retorted Mondale: "We had a little brain wrestle on Sunday night." Reagan's physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, volunteered that Reagan was "tired, everybody was tired" in the debate. Told of Ruge's comment by reporters, Reagan's response was defensive and somewhat baffling: "You got it wrong. He was tired...
...admire the tulips that had bloomed while he was in the hospital. He took penicillin orally to guard against infection of the lung pierced by the would-be assassin's bullet. But that was Reagan's only medication. The President's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, found no need to conduct any extensive examinations on his twice daily visits. He merely performed brief checkups and asked the First Patient how he felt. "It sure hurts to get shot," Reagan told aides with a wry smile. Nonetheless, he ate heartily enough to begin putting back some weight...
Reagan was his own best doctor in many ways, Ruge noted. The President could pace himself, discipline his appetites, his activity. "He simply knows how to take care of himself," declared Ruge. That is in marked contrast to the excesses of work and indulgence seen in other Presidents, notably L.B. J. Ruge has studied carefully the White House environment, Reagan's state of mind, any symptoms of stress. What he found was reassuring. He noted that those who traveled with the President, whether staff or Secret Service agents, genuinely liked him. That aura, created in large part by Reagan...