Moving-Up Day For the Reagans

A week of Inaugural fun-and serious work as well

As movers packed up their belongings, the departing couple exchanged alternately jocular and tearful reminiscences with friends and neighbors at a series of farewell get-togethers. After a final embrace in the empty house that they had regretfully put up for sale, they boarded a plane for a flight to a distant city, where the husband plunged into a round of urgent business conferences. Another upwardly mobile executive family pulling up roots because of the husband's career? Well, yes, but with a difference: the job in...

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