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...stage with softer backlighting than in Louisville, Reagan looked vigorous and spoke like the Great Communicator of political legend. The nervousness of two weeks before was gone, as were the long pauses and defensive stance. He was occasionally loose and rambling on substance, but constantly cool and winning in manner. Above all, he strongly diffused the age issue that had arisen after the first debate and may have been the only obstacle to his reelection...
...heat over his remarks increased, Reagan and his aides tried to put them in a softer light. After complaining that his comments on intelligence deficiencies had been "distorted" by reporters, Reagan telephoned Carter with what presidential aides called "an explanation." But by complying with Carter's request that the call be made public, it amounted to a rare apology from Reagan. What Reagan had really intended, an aide said, was to refer to "a decade-long decline" in intelligence capacity. Reagan told Carter that he did not blame him for the embassy tragedy The flurry over Reagan...
While the debt bomb has still to be defused, its tick is much softer than before. "The international financial system has the capacity to handle the Latin American debt crisis," said Economist Arnaldo Musich, an unofficial adviser to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, agreed: "The countries can grow out of it. The world can grow...
Reagan's softer line was not aimed so much at Moscow as at the American electorate. If he has a political vulnerability, it is the state of relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which are cooler than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. "The risk we face now is that the people view the President as being locked in concrete and against negotiations with the Soviets," says a senior White House adviser. In taking a more conciliatory tack, he said, Reagan was "making sure the Democrats don't have an issue...
...saved him, because he was a summer and needed softer tones," she says, adding that they came up with three possible colors for suits as well as several the shirts to go with them...