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White House Diaries
August
18
1988
August 18, 1988
Thursday, August 18, 1988
Calls to Nancy Raphel—widow of Ambas. Raphel also his mother. Then to Gen. Wassons widow—not the happiest task but certainly necessary.
Then a ride—Nancy with us I’m happy to say. Lunch on the patio with Barney & Dennis. At 1:30 P.M. Edmund Morris arrived—my biographer. I gave him a tour inside & out then he joined me as I went to where Barney & Dennis were pruning Oaks. He even pitched in a bit before he had to take off.
Before all that I had phoned Robert [Oakley] and asked him to be Ambas. there in Pakistan. He said yes.
We watched Geo. B. in his acceptance speech—he was just great. I phoned him to tell him so.
