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...being subtly spread by aides of rival candidates, Hart suggested, "Sooner or later, someone has to write the story about how this is coming out of other campaigns." Hours later he tried to soften the point, saying he did not believe rival camps were spreading rumors. Nevertheless, the initial remark illustrated the dangers of a presidential candidate's uttering the truth. Instead of stifling the rumors, Hart's words prompted another day's worth of stories about them and about his critical response...
...furor grew after the Miami Herald quoted a remark by new Chief of Staff Howard Baker that when Mrs. Reagan "gets her hackles up, she can be a dragon." A front-page story in the New York Times announced that the First Lady intended to increase her involvement in White House affairs, including the effort to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets...
...done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police searched Smith's house they found pornographic material, including books with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover. He claimed to be exploring...
...thought that she made very patronizing and condescending remarks about the Caribbean, and I was offended by them," said Erica H.S. Samuels, a Wellesley junior from Jamaica who left the lecture. "Regardless of her explanation her remark was a racist one," she said...
Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole commented that the meeting sounded like the "opening gun of '88." Though he intended no criticism of the President, his remark suggested that the principal struggle from now on will be not between the Administration and congressional Democrats but among the leading contenders in both parties (including Dole) for the succession to Reagan...