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excerpts from the book Political Fictions by Joan Didion
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"excerpts from the book
Political Fictions
by Joan Didion
Vintage Press, 2001. paper
Reagan Administration - December 18, 1997 (p91)
The aides gave us the details, retold
now like runes. Promptly at nine o'clock on most mornings of the
eight years he spent as president of the United States, Ronald
Reagan arrived in the Oval Office to find on his desk his personal
schedule, printed on green stationery and embossed in gold with
the presidential seal. Between nine and ten he was briefed, first
by his chief of staff and the vice president and then by his national
security adviser. At ten, in the absence of a pressing conflict,
he was scheduled for downtime, an hour in which he answered selected
letters from citizens and clipped items that caught his eye in
Human Events and National Review. Other meetings followed, for
example with the congressional leadership. "I soon learned
that these meetings lasted just one hour, no more, no less,"
Tony Coelho, at the time majority whip in the House, told us in
Recollections of Reagan: A Portrait of Ronald Reagan, a I997 collection
of reminiscences edited by Peter Hannaford. "If the agenda-which
he had written out on cards- wasn't completed at the end of the
hour, he would excuse himself and leave. If it was finished short
of an hour, he would fill the rest of the time with jokes (and
he tells a good one)." During some meetings, according to
his press secretary, Larry Speakes, the president filled the time
by reciting Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
When the entry on the schedule was not
a meeting but an appearance or a photo opportunity, the president
was rehearsed. "You'll go out the door and down the steps,"
Michael Deaver or someone else would say, we were told by Donald
Regan, secretary of the treasury from 1981 until I985 and White
House chief of staff from I985 until I987. "The podium is
ten steps to the right and the audience will be in a semi-c"
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