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...assigned to Truman's White House detail. He relished Truman's early-morning walks, but he worried about the President's crawling around the girders during the reconstruction of the White House. Recalls Scouten: "His eyesight wasn't very good." Scouten soon found himself on Wake Island in the Secret Service advance team for the Korean War meeting between Truman and his independent-minded general, Douglas MacArthur. He was in the White House's West Wing when the flash came about the assassination attempt against Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists at Blair House across the street. In a couple...
...Scouten moved from the Secret Service to the White House staff as deputy to the chief usher, who is in charge of running the physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement...
After the Reagans arrived, Scouten was in the solarium with Nancy when a Secret Service agent hurried in. His heart froze as he heard the dreaded words for the second time: "The President's been shot." Happily, that crisis was limited...
Last week the Prime Minister won over the Likud ministers by implicitly threatening to resign and thus bring down the government. His secret weapon: the Likud's knowledge that it must not cause too much trouble between now and October, when Peres is due to exchange jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader. Later in the week Peres scored a victory of another kind: the establishment of diplomatic relations with Spain for the first time. CANADA Markets on the Mind...
...minutes on an exercise bicycle. Doctors at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco said that her body showed no signs of rejecting her new heart and that she might be able to return home as early as this week. Whenever she leaves, it will be in secret since she has become a celebrity with all the pros and cons that now brings. In a videotaped statement she thanked Garza for his lifesaving gift and gratefully acknowledged the get-well wishes from everyone "who's been concerned about my transplant and how I'm doing." She and her parents now have...