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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, March 7, 2016
Nancy Reagan: Consultant, caregiver, questioner
A1986 photo
shows first
lady Nancy
Reagan hold-
ing Rex, a
King Charles
spaniel, as
she and Pres-
ident Ronald
Reagan walk
on the White
House South
Lawn.
terview made as part of a Uni-
versity of Virginia oral history
project on the Reagan years.
‘And she’d say: ‘Rain. Why is
it raining? Why is it raining in
Cleveland?”’ Kuhn recalled.
“I’d say, ‘Well, I guess there’s a
low pressure system that came
Neustadt in his book Presiden-
tial Power and the Modem
Presidents:
“The aide in charge of warn-
ing him [Reagan] when threats
appeared against his public
standing or historical appeal...
that special staff role, of im-
mense importance to someone
habitually incurious about de-
tail, had been assigned his wife.
More precisely, she had made it
hers since Sacramento.”
up to leave, and I got up to shake
hands with her. ... The skirt is
down at my ankles and I’m
standing there in my pantyhose
and my blouse,” she recalled to
gales of laughter.
“I don’t know whether we ev-
er got the money from the lady,
but I said to her, ‘I’m sure this is a
meeting you’re never going to
forget.’”
Coping with Alzheimer’s
By 1999, Nancy Reagan had
been trying to cope with her
husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis
for five years, and she was asked
in a C-Span interview what she
had learned.
“That it is probably the worst
disease you can ever have,” she
replied. “Because you lose con-
tact and you’re not able to share.
In our case, to share all of those
wonderful memories that we
have.”
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Those
who worked with former U.S.
President Ronald Reagan say
Nancy Reagan was intelligent
and loyal to her husband.
As first lady, Mrs. Reagan was
a trusted adviser and held back-
stage power in the Reagan ad-
ministration, which began in
198L After the presidency, she
was a caregiver during Reagan’s
battle with Alzheimer’s and a pro-
tector of his legacy after his death.
Nancy Reagan died Sunday
in Los Angeles. She was 94.
Here’s a look at the personal
side of Mrs. Reagan:
Fierce intelligence
Martin Anderson, domestic
policy adviser in Reagan’s 1980
campaign and his first term in
the White House, wrote in his
book, Revolution:
“Nancy Reagan was an im-
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“I’d think, ‘Oh, God, I’m get-
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Nancy Reagan recounted
one of the lighter moments of
White House life at a 1994
George Washington University
gathering on the role of first la-
dies.
Asking questions
James Kuhn, Reagan’s sec-
ond-term executive assistant,
credited Nancy Reagan with
much of her husband’s success
but said she was hard to please
and “could ask questions that
there were no answers to.”
For example, she would de-
mand details of the weather in
whatever place the Reagans
were going, Kuhn said in an in-
AP file photo
portant and active participant in
virtually all the important discus-
sions that took place during the
campaign. She was highly intelli-
gent, with a sixth sense for asking
insightful, penetrating questions.
Above all, her judgments on pub-
lic policy issues, political strategy,
and personnel were superb. ...
Reagan recognized a good mind
when he encountered one, and
he consulted her constantly on
just about everything. On the
other hand, he would never hes-
itate to overrule her counsel, al-
though he seldom did so because
she was usually right.”
It happened, she said, at a
meeting “with this lady who we
were trying to convince to do
something for the White House.”
“I had on a blouse and a
wraparound skirt. And she got
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After his death in June 2004 she
dedicated herself to tending his
legacy, especially at his presiden-
tial library in California, where
he had served as governor.
She also championed Alzhei-
mer’s patients, raising millions
of dollars for research and
breaking with fellow conserva-
tive Republicans to advocate for
stem cell studies.
The Reagans’ mutual devo-
tion over 52 years of marriage
was legendary. They were forev-
er holding hands. She watched
his political speeches with a look
of such steady adoration it was
dubbed “the gaze.” He called her
“Mommy,” and penned a life-
time of gushing love notes. She
saved these letters, published
them as a book, and found them
a comfort when he could no lon-
ger remember her.
In a statement Sunday, U.S.
President Barack Obama and
first lady Michelle Obama spoke
of the Reagans’ journey with
Alzheimer’s disease.
“Later, in her long goodbye
with President Reagan, she be-
came a voice on behalf of mil-
lions of families going through
the depleting, aching reality of
Alzheimer’s, and took on a new
role, as advocate, on behalf of
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At the time, few people had
personal computers. The popu-
larity of personal email wouldn’t
take off until years later.
“It wasn’t an assignment at
all, he was just fooling around;
he was looking for something to
do with ARPANET,” Raytheon
spokeswoman Joyce Kuzman
said.
By Sarah Skidmore Sell
AP Business Writer
Raymond Tomlinson, the in-
ventor of modem email and a
technological leader, died Satur-
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Police officers salute as a hearse leaves Nancy Reagan’s home in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Raytheon Co., his employer,
confirmed his death; the details
were not immediately available.
Email existed in a limited ca-
pacity before Tomlinson in that
electronic messages could be
shared amid multiple people
within a limited framework. But
until his invention in 1971 of the
first network person-to-person
email, there was no way to send
something to a specific person at
a specific address.
Tomlinson wrote and sent the
first email on the ARPANET sys-
tem, a computer network that
was created for the U.S. govern-
ment that is considered a precur-
sor to the Internet. Tomlinson al-
tial and the promise to improve
and save lives,” the Obamas said.
Nancy Reagan substantial
influence within the White
House came to light slowly in
her husband’s second term.
Although a feud between the
first lady and chief of staff Donald
Regan had spilled into the open,
the president dismissed reports
that it was his wife who got Regan
fired. “The idea that she is in-
volved in governmental decisions
and so forth and all of this, and
being a kind of dragon lady —
there is nothing to that,” a visibly
angry Reagan assured reporters.
But Nancy Reagan herself
and other insiders later con-
firmed her role in rounding up
support for Regan’s ouster and
persuading the president that it
had to be done, because of the
Iran-Contra scandal that broke
under Regan’s watch.
She delved into policy issues,
too. She urged Ronald Reagan
to finally break his long silence
on the AIDS crisis. She nudged
him to publicly accept responsi-
bility for the arms-for-hostages
scandal. And she worked to but-
tress those advisers urging him
to thaw U.S. relations with the
Soviet Union, over the objec-
tions of the administration’s “evil
empire” hawks.
Anne Frances Robbins, nick-
named Nancy, was bom on July
6, 1921, in New York City. Her
parents separated soon after she
was bom and her mother, film
and stage actress Edith Luckett,
went on the road. Nancy was
reared by an aunt until 1929,
when her mother married Dr.
Loyal Davis, a Chicago neurosur-
geon who gave Nancy his name.
In 1949, MGM signed 5-
foot-4, doe-eyed brunette Nan-
cy Davis to a movie contract. She
had a key role in The Next Voice
You Hear..., an unusual drama
about a family that hears God’s
voice on the radio.
She met Ronald Reagan in
1950, when he was president of
the Screen Actors Guild and she
was seeking help with a prob-
lem: Her name had been wrong-
ly included on a published list of
suspected communist sympa-
thizers. They wed on March 4,
1952.
“I’m often asked ‘Did I know
what I was doing?” Tomlinson
said when he was inducted into
the Internet Hall of Fame. “The
answer is: Yeah, I knew exactly
what I was doing. I just had no
notion whatsoever about what
the ultimate impact would be.”
Tomlinson is the one who
chose the @ symbol to connect
the username with the destina-
tion address.
She was thrust into the politi-
cal life when her husband ran for
California governor in 1966 and
won. She found it a surprisingly
rough business.
“The movies were custard
compared to politics,” Mrs. Rea-
gan said.
from the ensemble to different
sections, to soloists and back
again, are decided on the spot by
the person manning the cam-
eras.
From Page 1A
UNT
Performance Hall and from
Voertman Hall at the Music
Building. That means Internet
users can catch performances by
groups from the UNT Sympho-
ny Orchestra to the One O’clock
Lab Band online, for free.
“The whole rig in there was
originally for DVDs. Since the
DVD usage was declining and
wasn’t being marketed, we
wound up losing a lot of money
on it,” said Blair Liikala, director
of recording services at the Col-
lege of Music. “We said, ‘Well, ei-
ther we’re going to phase out the
video or we’re just going to do
something else with it.’”
Iiikala and two film students
shoot about 30 to 35 streams
each semester. The setup is com-
pact: Iiikala runs the stream
and handles the schedule, then
manages the live chat and han-
dles the audio while one student
mans the motorized pan-tilt
cameras installed in each venue,
which are controlled remotely
from the annex. Depending on
the concert, between three and
six cameras are used.
“A lot of other colleges try to
do something like this and they
ultimately fail because it’s so dif-
ficult to have the staff to man
cameras and have people
trained,” Liikala said. “They try
to do all these things, and it just
sort of blows them out as far as
time and energy.”
Liikala said the department
has adapted its style over time to
create more variety with a lim-
ited setup. He said the goal is to
use existing techniques to mask
the limited number of cameras
and make the stream look as
professional as possible.
Caleb Karrenbrock, a senior
majoring in film, is one of the
camera operators.
“The good part is that every-
thing is super easy and efficient,”
Karrenbrock said. “The down-
side is that you have one very
stressed-out video operator try-
ing to figure out when they’re
playing, what instrument has
the solo, where they’re sitting,
and trying to make it look good
and make sense at the same
time.”
“A lot of the really profession-
al places do extensive rehearsals.
Typically, they’ll have the music
in front of them and somebody
calling shots,” Karrenbrock said.
“For this, as soon as we hear it,
we have to react. Otherwise it’ll
be over before we have time to
get there.’”
He said viewers use the chat
function to make requests dur-
ing a concert livestream, which
he works into the stream.
“It’ll be like, ‘Hey, get a pic-
ture of my kid, he’s the one with
the Afro three seats back!’ and
then the next time they play, I’ll
cut to them,” Karrenbrock said.
“Or it’ll be like, ‘Hey, we haven’t
seen a shot of the bassist in a
while, get us a shot of the bass-
filled one tank.
We learned that the collected
water, sitting in our tanks, was as
valuable as money in the bank.
When rains were generous, we
didn’t irrigate.
Rainwater is better for the
soil, too, because it doesn’t con-
tain the chlorine and other salts
common in tap water. Texas
rainwater is ever-so-slightly
acidic, which is helpful for our
alkaline soils.
Dickinson told Saturday’s
class another benefit we discov-
ered when using some of the
rainwater to irrigate our vegeta-
ble beds.
“Tomatoes will never taste so
good as those watered with rain-
water,” he said.
But, in the dog days of August,
we often emptied a 250-gallon
tank to water the vegetable beds.
I wondered about “scaling down”
for my backyard in town.
Would a 50-gallon barrel
hold enough for an urban vege-
table bed?
Dickinson assured us a 50-
gallon barrel offered plenty of
storage. First, the barrel refills
with each rainfall. Second, if
you’re efficient, you can make it
last.
barrel for the front yard. (Our
sweetgum trees need more wa-
ter in the summer.)
A new state law tells home-
owners associations that they
cannot prohibit rainwater
catchment. However, they can
require people to make their
barrels look pleasing.
My neighborhood doesn’t
have a homeowners association.
I think my backyard barrel is
a beautiful ugly duckling, but I’ll
take the extra steps to make sure
the barrel out front looks like a
swan.
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Should you decide you need
more barrels, people who take the
class can buy more kits from
Dickinson. Because his team sells
the kits at a price that recoups
their costs, the kits are affordable.
Dickinson said he also leads
classes on drip irrigation. I plan
on going to learn how to make
that 50 gallons last. The city’s next
class on do-it-yourself drip irriga-
tion and sprinkler repair at Clear
Creek is scheduled for April 16.
Meanwhile, I’ll hang on to the
handout from the class, which
shows how to build barrels and
how to disguise them, too.
I plan on getting a second
Heinkel-Wolfe
thought the caramel scent com-
ing from my barrel hinted at a
cola syrup.
This is the part where I must
tell you that the Wolfe family has
a lot of experience catching rain-
water. Before we moved into
town last year, we farmed 10
acres of pecan trees, drip-irrigat-
ing with rainwater we caught
and stored in six 1,500-gallon
tanks next to the house.
The process of collecting and
using the rain that fell on our roof
certainly taught us water’s value.
We knew it would be cost-
prohibitive to use the municipal
water supply to irrigate on that
scale. We determined that, over
the long run, rainwater catch-
ment was a better investment
than drilling a well.
Over time, we learned to esti-
mate from the rain gauge how
much water we collected in the
tanks. A thunderstorm that
dropped an inch of rain on our
2,500-square-foot home almost
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE
can be reached at 940-566-
6881 and via Twitter at
@phwolfeDRC.
ist!
Liikala said he opted for an
anonymous chat, which doesn’t
require users to register or log in,
to make the streams as user-
friendly as possible.
“I don’t want them to have to
go through all these steps to par-
ticipate,” Liikala said. ‘We have a
lot of parents, we have a lot of
first-time people. They’re not
going want to create logins.”
He said a recent survey found
the two most common requests
are more camera angles and
more streamed events. He noted
that while the Winspear and
Voertman halls are both rigged
for cameras, only one concert
can be streamed at a time.
‘We’d like to do both halls,
but that would be a big step,” Lii-
kala said. ‘We’ve outgrown a lot
of our physical studio space.”
He and Karrenbrock said the
next big step would be to start
streaming student recitals as
well, but doing so would open
the floodgates, increasing de-
mand for the streaming service.
“Once we say we can do stu-
dent recitals, everybody will
want it, and we’re not ready to
take all that on,” Karrenbrock
said.
OBITUARIES
Davis "Duke" Gault
Davis "Duke" Gault, 86,
of Denton, passed away
Saturday, February 27,
^ 2Q16, in Bonham, Texas,
He was born December 13,
1929, to Duke and Lorine
Gault in San Diego,
California. Davis "Duke1" retired from the United States
Navy in 1970 after 30 years of service as a Master Chief.
After retirement Davis "Duke" enjoyed restoring Datsun 2
cars. He was a member of the Church of Christ and the
Masonic Lodge.
Davis "Duke" married Carol "Joyce" Gault on November
30,1956, and had two children, Heather and William "Duke"
Gault, Davis "Duke’1 is preceded in death by his parents,
Duke and Lorine Gault, sister, Lois DeBorde and his son,
William "Duke" Gault,
Davis "Duke" is survived by his wife, Carol "Joyce" Gault,
of Denton, daughter, Heather Miller and husband John, of
New York, grandsons, Davis Beard and his fiancee Falon, of
Denton, and Josh Miller, of New York, granddaughter,
Charlotte Miller, of Maryland, and great-grandson, Noah
Beard, of Denton.
A Memorial Service is scheduled for Davis "Duke" and his
son. William "Duke", who passed away July 31, 2015,
Service will be at 11:0Q a.m. Thursday, March 10, 2016, at
DeBerry Funeral Directors. Interment will be 1 ;30 p.m. at the
DFW National Cemetery following the service.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that you please make
donations to the Diabetes Association.
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