European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Books the portraits generally agree 1 through Congress Stockman wrote in the tit Nahal politics. Donald t. Regan Lormer chief of Stalf. In he most recent and most devastating Book fat the record says Reagan was programmed by his Stalf id run through a daily Schulz As a movie actor runs through a shooting schedule. This is elation with image produced a strange a Fleck Regan wrote. Ronald Reagan seemed to be regarded by certain members of his inner Circle not As the powerful and utterly original Leader that he was but As a sort of supreme Anchorman whose Public Persona was the. Most important element of the v scholar Martin Anderson former assistant to the president Lor policy development in revolution complains of Reagan s undemanding nature Ronald Reagan. Had one distinctive personality trait that was highly j unusual perhaps unique Tor someone who Rose to the High j level of managerial responsibility he attained he made no demands and gave almost no from former while House chef Henri hails comes the tames most harmless expose Choi Haller confides that the Man who loves simple Home style meals of Macaroni and cheese hamburger soup and meat loaf also sneaks in Dick a i Oranga at Stag lunches or dinners when his wite is out of town. There an contradiction in these portraits. It Reagan is such a voracious newspaper Teader As both Deaver and Regan contend in their works How can the president say he did t know Speakes put those dramatic wants in his mouth7 yet even when Many profess Persona admiration for the president the descriptions that emerged were less than kind. Stephen Koss a senior fellow at the breaking institution and a specialist on the presidency says each Book must be read through the filler of who these Guys Are and what s bugging them but that each one also provides a piece of the it s the parable of the Blind men and the elephant each one la touching a different part and describing it Tive business a mention the turmoil and complexity of the world and How of people Are grasping for new principles in order to n understand themselves. Simple curiosity no doubt plays a pah. Everyone wishes to know what tomorrow will bring Imi especially when today and yesterday Haven t been so hot. Or astrologers soil Hope and who could t use some also Eugene Moore fell into Star work in a roundabout Way. He started Olf in a machine shop got involved with a mail order business that sold machinery and then became a rom real estate broker. I got out of that because it was t. Dishonest he said and i got into Bon that happened in 1966, or 30,000 horoscopes ago. Of besides individual readings Lor which he charges $45, i Moore Rilos a periodic newsletter moots a school of ars astrology newsletter that he sends without charge jut of to other astrologers As my contribution to s his Favorito was the Issue last year that featured Connie Francis on the cover. He had dug out the act that the Singer had the same aspect Neptune Al the mid i to heaven Square of her ascendent As Elvis Presley and is Frank Sinatra this discovery meant that All three possessed the ability to cast a spell on an audience a in most of Moore s clients to said seek advice Aboul jobs. I m very Good at figuring out the Best possible career Lof someone he noted. I just had a lady the other Day who was working As a receptionist Al the i state prison which was unsatisfactory to her. I told her i to Jiang on for a year and something would open up in a in creative Field possibly commies. She was real Happy. Of others show up with marital problems. A lot of limes i can save a marriage but olten when they come to me they be already found someone else. Mot much Chance of saving it then i also get a lot of people with sexual harassment problems with the Boss. Boy those Moore mentioned that he had a Knack for using astrology to Tell whether a missing person is dead or alive. I be done a couple of Hundred of them he said. One problem i be been having is i can t Tell where the onday ma/23,19bb differently Hess said. Taking Nole of Regan s and Stockman s books Hess pointed to heir underlying common theme. What comes through in All the books from the earliest on is what Al Best could be called a hands off presidency and at worst an inattentive said Hess it s interesting that the same president who is on the cover of Fortune Magazine touting his management style is also the same president who presided Over the problems of the Iran Contra the most recent Book to capture the headlines has been regans primarily for its revelation thai the first lady controlled the president s schedule in consultation with an astrologer. Regan bolsters the negative image put Forward by Stockman Deaver and speaker in his Book Regan faults the president for a distaff presidency that was hesitant and indecisive. He charged that Reagan Laid Down no rules and articulated no Mission for his Cabinet officers. This. Is dangerous Regan wrote. He describes a president so unwilling to bother others that he sat in his West Wing Vilice eyes smarting even though smoke billowed from a clogged Chimney. Here is How Anderson a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute on the Campus of Stanford University in California characterizes Reagan he is highly intelligent with a photographic memory. He has a Gitl for absorbing great amounts of diverse information and is capable of combining various parts of that information into new coherent packages and then conveying his thoughts and ideas clearly and concisely in a Way thai is understandable to almost but Anderson nay3 Reagan made decisions like an ancient King or a turkish Pasha passively telling his subjects serve him. Rarely did he ask searching questions and demand to know Why someone had or had not Dona Stockman recalling a 20-minute lecture he gave the president on taxes whole what do you do when your president ignores All the palpable relevant lads and wanders in circles i could not Bear to watch this Good and decent Man go on in this embarrassing Way and if Reagan is faulted for being an out of Louch president adopted son Michael hits him for being a Distant lather. I be spent my life trying to figure out How to make Ronald Reagan my Friend Reagan said after publication of his books from the outside looking in he quoted his father As saying my god 1 thought just telling you i loved you was All i had to Lou Cannon the White House correspondent for the Washington Post who has covered Reagan since his Days in California says no one should be surprised by the descriptions of Reagan s hands off style. Ii anyone interested in the presidency did t know we had a Laid Back president they must have been on Mars Cannon said. I never could understand Stockman s Book that he was surprised Reagan was such a delegator and a Cannon also pointed to another theme running through the books. This administration had done a lot to Foster the notion that greed is Good and these authors clearly demonstrate that he said noting the advances some books have garnered. Cannon who wrote the authoritative Reagan in 1961 and has a second Book on the president due a year after a leaves office said books by administration Victos show How much Reagan depended upon the people he chose to work functioned Well with someone like James Baker Iii working As his chief of stall but not someone like Regan Cannon Conlen Dod. Regan s management style was to eliminate everybody Cannon said. Ever since his Days in California Reagan worked with a round table style where he heard his advisers out and Ihen made a decision the writer said. He did it in California and he s doing it today. These books won t change his another theme threading through the Dover and began books is the invasive role of the Lisl lady. Regan asserts that mrs Reagan chocked virtually every major move and decision with an astrologer. By hum Oring her we had Given her control Regan wrote. No one except me. And teas of All the president was disposed to interfere with jew of. % missing person the painstaking part of astrology is the mathematics involved in constructing charts. The computer however has transformed the Field. Moore said his Digi comp computer needs 20 minutes to produce a Chart thai would take five hours by hand. Throughout history astrologers were famous Tor being poor. But today it is possible to make a satisfying living at the Craft. in is not uncommon to earn id year. 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