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...Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever. (Later that year they gave Victory's brother to George and Barbara Bush during the G.O.P. Convention in Detroit. His name: Veep.) Then came Freebo, a Doberman-retriever mix that originally belonged to Daughter Patti. When her itinerant life-style made it impossible for Patti to care for him, Mom and Dad came to the rescue. Probably the most renowned canine in the Reagan menagerie is Lucky, the Bouvier des Flandres sheep...
...former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps. But if so, the brouhaha only underscores how much more adept Ronald Reagan is than George Bush in communicating the same thing...
...addition, Ferraro appears to have turned off both male and female Southerners, many of whom are not ready for a woman Veep, much less a fast-talking one from Queens. "She made the South ours," declared Reagan's political director Edward Rollins. Said Florence Robinson of Memphis: "I'm a liberated woman, but I don't think a woman should be running things in Washington...
...mostly political big-wigs on the stand with veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro at last month's Boston Common rally...
...Veep Ferraro...