Volume 38, Number 11 · June 13, 1991
The Man Who Wasn't There
By Garry Wills
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
by Lou Cannon
Simon and Schuster, 948 pp., $24.95
A Very Thin Line: the Iran-Contra Affairs
by Theodore Draper
Hill and Wang, 690 pp., $27.95
In an episode already made famous by Lou Cannon's brilliant new work, James Baker left a briefing book, laboriously calibrated to Reagan's attention span, in the suite where Reagan was staying on the night before the 1983 economic meeting with world leaders in Williamsburg. Baker was worried about Reagan's performance the next day, and was even more nervous when he saw the book had not been moved during the night. Reagan blithely explained that he did not have time to look at it since 'The Sound of Music was on [television] last night.'
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