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...national impotence. But his dissection of Reagan's manipulation of the media, and through it the nation, is more complete than any other. And there are, of course, the incomparable White anecdotes. He tells of a moment during the 1968 Republican convention, when a Reagan operative sought to switch a delegate from Nixon to Reagan...
...Shultz acquired as Richard Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury is widely admired on both sides of the Atlantic. But Shultz is on record as opposed to the use of trade as a political weapon against the Soviets, and as a Bechtel executive he complained about the "light-switch diplomacy"-an on-again, off-again policy-preventing American companies from serving as reliable suppliers under international contracts. Those positions scarcely fit well with the stand President Reagan took at his news conference last Wednesday...
Officials attributed the change in plans primarily to a 10-day late start and their desire to keep the project on schedule. Associate Dean of the College Martha Coburn also said that the switch was "the sort of experience you expect to have when you're doing something for the first time...
...entering negotiations "bearing honest proposals." Still, the speech differed strikingly in tone from some of those that Reagan gave in Europe, notably one in Bonn during which he told antinuclear marchers that "my heart is with you." Nor was there any question who had decided on the switch. The President not only dictated the tone but personally wrote some of the more striking sections, including the "paper castle" passage, during a weekend at Camp David. Said one White House aide who helped prepare the talk: "You might say that we let Reagan be Reagan." Interestingly, when the President told NATO...
...bows properly until next March, and sent instead drawings of what he had planned. Williams' play, And Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws, came in too short-no more than 45 or 50 minutes-and Executive Director Robert Herman, the operating head of the festival, had to switch to another new Williams work, A House Not Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write his Second Piano Concerto, said he could not finish it in time and would regretfully return...