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...Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bob Hope, was created in 1982 to give the Interior Department advice on how to restore Miss Liberty along with nearby Ellis Island, where as many as 16 million immigrants entered America between 1892 and 1924 (among them: Iacocca's parents). What former Interior Secretary James Watt had done for the Beach Boys by trying to ban one of their Fourth of July concerts in Washington, Hodel seemed to do for the made-in-America Chrysler chairman: give him the publicity he so eagerly seeks. But a former Interior official (not Watt) cast Hodel's decision...
Ceausescu is desperate for more Western trade. Because his highly centralized economy has faltered badly, living standards are so low that the government requires citizens to light each room with only a single 40-watt bulb and for no more than six hours a day. Indeed, Shultz and his entourage decided not to stay overnight in Bucharest in part because they were unsure whether there would be adequate light and heat. When the Secretary's motorcade left the capital at 6 p.m., the city was already as blacked out as London during the Blitz...
...claimed to hail from Montreal, said they didn't know who had sent them to Cambridge. They said the benefactor had paid cash for the six-piece system, which included a direct-drive turntable, a Dolby cassette deck, a graphic equalizer, an AM-FM receiver and two 80-watt speakers...
...Reagan's Cabinet are, with the possible exceptions of Education Secretary William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members are not flamboyant, they are competent. If they are no longer revolutionary, they are spurred on by the conviction that they have made a difference that must now be preserved...
...They are escorted through three different holding rooms until they are standing at the President's door. Ward, now a peppy Portland grandfather, has never seen anything like this, even in his Hollywood years. The doors open. Some set. Across the room is Dutch Reagan under his undimmed 150-watt smile. He strides up to the Wards, puts his arms around Vera, looks at George and says, "Can you believe it has been 48 years since I walked into your office? It's a little different now. See what happened when you stopped being my agent...