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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing normal life-not even his kin, who though still cautious, seem 50 Ibs. lighter in the duty department and more candid than ever (but off the record...
...Invest $30,000 in Wyoming coal fields, the pitch went, and use a loophole in the law to take a legitimate $150,000 deduction on Form 1040. Like many tax-shelter schemes, the offer attracted big names with big money: Basketball Stars Spencer Haywood and Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe, Candid Camera Host Allen Funt, Rock Singer Alice Cooper and Model Margaux Hemingway. The late Elvis Presley was the biggest customer of all: he sank $500,000 into the enterprise...
Success in the Oval Office requires that mistakes be acknowledged and corrected, that communication be direct and candid, both internally and with outside adversaries. In this time of penetrating surveillance and instant communication, the old art of bluffing and posturing is often foolish and hazardous. We know each other's capabilities. Thus clear understanding of purposes is essential. It is a basic rule of today's diplomacy that successful negotiations never produce "winners" in the television sense, only satisfied parties on both sides of the table. Threats hurled back and forth are a sign of failed leadership...
...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...
Paul Laxalt. Of all Reagan's advisers, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, 58, feels most free to tell the candidate precisely what he thinks. That may be because the two view each other as compatible equals. Both were elected Governor in neighboring states at the same time. Both are proud of their Western backgrounds. Reagan likes the way Laxalt strides through Washington in his cowboy boots. They get along so well, notes a Laxalt aide, because they "share a belief in the great, growing, ebullient American West. They squint when they look into the distance." Ever since they consulted...