Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan is also likely to emerge from the controversy slightly battered. His staff turned in less than stellar performances in preparing and bringing off the trip. Chief of Staff Donald Regan, though brand-new to the White House when the early planning occurred, failed to recognize the seriousness of the Bitburg blunder and to cut the President's losses. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, who is expected to be nominated as the next U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, embarrassed U.S. officials in Bonn by walking out on a press briefing. Evidently angered by a couple of interruptions...
...games with an old Yankee grace. He has never been able to sustain a grudge against baseball. In 1975, when Berra was discharged as manager of the New York Mets, he spoke of needing to distance himself from the game. "I'm going to take my family on a trip," he said, "and get as far away from baseball as I can." When he reappeared the next year at spring training as a Yankee coach, Berra told where he had gone without any sense of irony or humor: "The Hall of Fame...
...side trip to Rome was designed to let Mrs. Reagan pursue her antidrug crusade while her husband was busy at the economic summit. On Friday afternoon she visited a rehabilitation clinic in the Alban Hills and heard residents recount their fall into heroin addiction. That night she dined at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb with 60 of Rome's glitterati (Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Federico Fellini, Valentino...
...miles away from Germany. But it is only a few hours before he is going there, both in body and in spirit. His mission is to make clear his feelings and those of his country about the Nazi horrors. Reagan is plainly anguished by the controversy that his trip and his statements created...
...forget--but move on. These two themes impel Reagan on the eve of his trip. "I am hopeful that when people see and hear the tone of that day of remembering they will understand. I recognize that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other...