Diary Entry - 01/29/1986
Key Facts
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss objectives for the upcoming Tokyo Summit with administration officials.
President Reagan announces his intention to nominate Richard E. Lyng, as Secretary of Agriculture.
Shades of Déjà Vu—a meeting with the Sherpas who are preparing for the Tokyo summit. They wanted to be sure I’d approve “terrorism” as a subject. My answer? H--l yes. Fred Fielding came by to tell me he wanted to return to civilian life. As always I said yes & thanked him for all he’s done. Actually he stayed longer than he’d planned to. Now he has to make some money. A memorial service has been set up for Fri. in Houston for the 7 heros who lost their lives yesterday.
Incidentally phone calls & wires poured in with nice words about my 5 min. speech yesterday on T.V. Now this afternoon I had a tougher job—phone calls to the families of the 7. All of them asked that we continue the space program—that’s what their loved ones would have wanted.
