Word: skipjacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
...respected as one of Capitol Hill's most articulate defense analysts; Lieutenant General Glenn Otis, 51, the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans and recent commanding officer of the 1st Armored Division; and Robert Pirie Jr., 46, former commander of the nuclear submarine Skipjack, National Security Council aide during the Nixon Administration and now Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics. Excerpts from their discussions...