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Meeting with the press in a relaxed and orderly session, the President displayed charm, aplomb and the indifference to some details in the briefing books that has distinguished his public performances from those of his fact-happy predecessor Jimmy Carter. While Reagan began many of his answers with his trademark "Well ..." and ducked a few queries altogether, he forcefully re-emphasized basic themes...
Ronald Reagan is at once more a part of the Washington scene than his predecessor, and, in another way, more removed. He has, as every President before, begun making his own patterns of leadership and life in the White House...
...chairman, Thomas Barrow, 56, who had recently left a $250,000-a-year job as a senior vice president at Exxon. The 6-ft. 3½-in. onetime University of Texas football player is the son of a former chairman of Humble Oil & Refining, one of Exxon's predecessor companies, and the heir to the 30,000-acre Thomson Ranch near San Antonio. Having reportedly been passed over for the presidency of Exxon, Barrow was on his way back home to manage his ranch when Kennecott snared him with a Texas-size contract. Barrow's salary, bonus...
...this community who oppose concessions to "racial separatism." He should come out for an even stronger financial commitment to Third World organizations, to minorty admissions, to the hiring of minority faculty. There is a point where delegation ends and leadership, both here and nationwide, begins. And although Bok's predecessor Pusey was widely assailed for taking matters into his own hands too often, for going so far as to call the police to evict with force students mainly protesting for peace, he at least showed his humanity, his capacity to love and hate, his faith in Old Harvard and what...
...Administration's global strategy. Reagan indicated his concern with the appointment of William Casey, his campaign manager and close adviser, as CIA director. Casey, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, once served as a top-ranking officer in the CIA'S famed predecessor, the OSS of World War II. Since then he has not been directly associated with intelligence activities, but veterans at the agency look forward to working for him because of his reputation as a forceful manager who is open to ideas and surrounds himself with topflight aides...