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...humility to journalists and scholars alike, by revealing how little we know in real time about what goes on in the White House. Reagan emerges as a much more hands-on President than many of his aides--and their sometimes self-promoting memoirs--suggested. While recuperating from a gunshot wound in 1981, Reagan sat down in the White House solarium and drafted a four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, appealing to the their common humanity to reduce tensions between the two countries. The letter is genuine, heartfelt--and sublimely idealistic. When he showed it to top aides, they...
Brown being as skilled as it is, those mistakes all wound up on the scoreboard...
...could make Virgil's death be a part of that." It didn't exactly work out that way. The movement wanted Lorene Ware to hit the stump, but because speaking publicly about Virgil's killing was too painful for her, his story faded away, an obscure, salt-in-the-wound footnote to the Sixteenth Street Church bombing...
...wound like the death of the love of one's life ever heal? Not easily; maybe not ever. "He tried to contain himself," Reverend Wilson says, "but her passing took his last spark, the last bit of his heart." Cash admitted as much. "I don't know hardly what to say tonight about being up here without her," he said at his first public appearance after her death, at the Carter Family Fold country music festival in Hiltons, Va. "The pain is so severe there is no way of describing...
...this year, as the Iraq war approached, the production judiciously moved from Morocco to Baja California. On the Malta location this spring, severe heat brought fainting spells on many of the burly Bulgarians hired as extras. One bit player, a former Mr. Malta named George Camilleri, suffered a leg wound while jumping from a galleon and died a few weeks later...