She learned of the shooting an hour after it occurred, from a reporter seeking a reaction. Stunned by the news, she slammed the door in the reporter’s face and has remained behind drawn curtains since.The silence from her house feeds rumors that she has fled the city. The rumors sound plausible, ...
For most of eighteen years London had been his home; he knew London now better than he knew Philadelphia. But the London he left by coach to catch the Pennsylvania packet at Portsmouth was not the London he had known just a few years earlier. Corruption had always troubled its politics, yet corru...
He had known Rock Hudson the way he knew many other Hollywood stars: by reputation chiefly but by occasional encounter as well. And it wasn’t unusual that he had acknowledged the actor’s passing in October 1985. “Nancy and I are saddened by the news of Rock Hudson’s death,” Reagan declared in a w...
Eight weeks into the new administration, the president wished to give the American people a sense of what had been accomplished and an idea of what remained to be done. As they reviewed the text before Roosevelt went on the air, Moley flagged certain passages to ensure that they conveyed what Roo...