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- <text id=90TT0752>
- <title>
- Mar. 26, 1990: Grapevine:Don't Hang Up (Chapter 1:
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 24
- Grapevine
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- <body>
- <p> DON'T HANG UP (CHAPTER 1). George Bush is not the first
- leader of the free world to accept a crank call from a hoaxer.
- As President, Ronald Reagan often shot the breeze with whoever
- happened to dial his number. Once a man identifying himself as
- Bill Smith called the White House and asked to speak with the
- President. Mistaking the caller for Attorney General William
- French Smith, White House operators patched him through to Camp
- David. For the next 30 minutes, Reagan listened to Bill Smith
- from Pennsylvania rattle on about his mortgage payments and his
- family problems.
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- </body>
- </article>
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