European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday october 23,1987 columns today s crossword when Nancy pulls Ronnie pushes  i was a reasonable question and in deserved a answer. My aunt Pauline wrote to me when presi Dent and mrs Reagan get off the helicopter is  pulling him or is Trie president pushing her to find an answer i went to Lum Walker Al photographer with War brides Magazine who has taken As Many pictures of the president As anybody. It s not an easy  he said As he loaded slides into his projector. For example sometimes mrs. Reagan gets off with the Dag and the dog yanks her and then she pulls the president. But if the dog in t with her then she lugs her husband without any  does the first lady pull the president and not the reverse because when he gels out of the helicopter he always looking at the press trying to figure out what they re shouting at him. The More the president appears As if he will go Over and talk to them the harder mrs. Reagan tries to haul him into the  Why is the first lady so determined to keep the president from talking to the press because she does t want him to say anything his press Secretary will have to retract. One of Fth reasons they never turn off the helicopter cart Ines is that the want to drive away the questions just in Case the president tries to respond to Sam Donaldson look at this  Lum said Nancy is pull ing with one hand and desperately trying to keep her balance with the other. You Only get a picture like his when they re returning from Camp  is hat a photo of the dog in is. It s a perfect White House picture. The dogs dragging the wife and the wife is tugging the Hus band and Chris Wallace is asking loudly behind the rope if or. Reagan it going to appoint a Contra free Dom fighter to replace judge Bork. Note the president it turning to respond but he does t want to trip so he has his body Bent Forward and he is cupping his ear to pretend he heard the  Why does the president always go live on television with the same scene this is a sunday night ritual which is very important to play out. In assures the american people Thater. Reagan and his wife Are alive and Well and have returned to the while House. Without the walk fro the helicopter heaven knows when we d see  what makes the dog so eager to get into the House the Stair has a dish of Alpo hiding behind  they go to a lot of trouble to keep up the presi Dent s  photo opportunities have great meaning to the administration and the helicopter scene is the greatest Shoi of  cd to Angl to Timbli poodle owners Ore o Touchy Bunch by Joe Murray Ann Landers from whom i get much of my new Sand most of my philosophy printed a letter from some poor woman whose husband had beaten up both her and her poodle. Sympathy notes poured in for the poodle. If Lii at Flea brain wants to be beaten Black an Blue an outraged Reader raged that is her business but when it Comet to abusing a pet in becomes every body s  i agree. Whatever the poodle people say goes Dou ble for me. They re As Tough As their dogs Are. Well unto ugh. That s not to say please note that poodle dogs Are Sissy dogs. I know a fellow who did say that and lived to regret in but just barely. This was some 25 years Back when he was writing editorials for the now Long gone new York Herald Tribune. One Day when close to deadline he was groping around for the proper number of words to till his allotted space and made the mistake of making mention of poodles in a less than reverent fashion. All it was i said something about somebody beings Sissy As a poodle dog Jim said shaking his head. Lordy but poodle owners arc a Touchy  my Friend Learned an awful lot about poodle dog sin the process some of which he still retains in the same Way one might still retain scars from having slipped and tumbled into a bark shredder. Did you know that poodle dogs were originally bred and raised As Hunting dogs he asked i said thai i did t As was pointed out to me repeatedly there s Noth ing Sissy about a Hunting dog is there i said that it depends. Depends on what my Friend asked. His voice dropped to a whisper As he looked around As if to make sure nobody of the poodle persuasion was Lurk ing about. Depends on what you re Hunting 1  As who knows maybe poodles were used for bunt ing sissies. You d like one of those Little dogs out to the Edge of the Thicket or wherever you thought Sis sies might be hiding. You d set it there in the open and after awhile a Sissy would Sec it and come out cooing of Loocke what an Itsy Bitsy cutesy woot Sie Widdic poodle Toggie then you d grab  s the pity i continued that in time the poodle through no fault of its own became associated with sissies Long after the Sissy Bounty had been allowed to lapse during a lamented period of a Liberal administration How do you know All thai my Friend asked his eyes narrowing. I think 1 read in somewhere said. Maybe Annanders. 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