He always made me a little nervous, to know that there was this fly on the wall that we knew nothing about. |
I am appalled by the whole handling of this. |
I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble. |
If you wanted to tell stories, he could tell them into the night. I used to kid that every story he had ended in a near-death experience. He didn't brag, which was a big part of his charm. He was a man's man and an intellectual to boot. |
It is like a mountain has fallen. |
It would have been confined to the vice-president. By not telling anyone for 24 hours, it made it a White House story. It becomes a story about the White House handling of it. |
It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick. |
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. |
The White House is a strange place. |