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...leader, flared up just like Wright after visits to the White House, though Johnson was far more cautious about who heard him. "That man does not deserve to be President," L.B.J. roared one night back in his Capitol office, even after Ike had poured him a generous portion of Scotch and soda. Poor old Ike, Johnson recounted, did not know where legislative bills were in Congress or even what was in them...
...Catskill resorts he tried a series of personae. Sometimes he was a road-company Henny Youngman: "I grew up in a tough neighborhood. We played hopscotch with real Scotch." On other occasions he was a Xerox of Woody Allen: "I was so self-conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about...
...forthcoming memoirs, Behind the Scenes (Morrow; $17.95), to be excerpted in next month's issue of LIFE magazine, Deaver, 49, says he was secretly drinking up to a quart of Scotch a day during his last year in the White House. The pressure of the capital, his associates now say, as well as financial and family problems, was getting to the President's high-strung friend...
Eventually Lewis and his wife Julie bear their grief in different directions: she to a country cottage to live in solitude and play her violin, he no farther than the couch to numb himself with television and Scotch. He stirs periodically to walk to Whitehall, where he is a desultory member of a government subcommittee on, of all things, child development...
NASA, however, remains sensitive about its treatment by the news media. The agency is trying to scotch an ad campaign sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Advertising Council that features a picture of the Challenger explosion. Beneath the photograph are the words, "If the press didn't tell us, who would?" Protested NASA Public Affairs Director Shirley Green: "Any suggestion that the public would not have learned the reasons for the accident is totally inaccurate...