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Chief of staff leaves White House
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Howard Baker Jr., who gave up his presidential ambitions to help President Reagan run the White House after the Iran-contra scandal, has resigned as chief of staff and will be replaced by his deputy, Kenneth Duberstein, it was announced Tuesday.
Baker said he will return to his home in Huntsville, Tenn., where his wife and his stepmother are in poor health. The changeover will take place July 1.
prudent.
"I really relish the thought of getting back to private life," Baker, an attorney, said in an interview. "It has been an extraordinary experience working with Ronald Reagan.
"I expect to go back and do nothing for awhile. I'm going to rest a little bit." Baker said.
With the accomplishments of the past 16 months and the health problems in his family, Baker said that it seemed like a logical time to go.
Prominently mentioned as a possible running mate on the Republican presidential ticket with George Bush. Baker said he would not turn down the number-two spot if it were offered, but he didn't expect the offer.
"You don't turn down requests of that sort if they are made," Baker said. "It's really something that is presumptuous in the extreme to say, No, I would not do that." But I did not want to do that. I do not expect to do that, and I think it's extremely unlikely I would be asked to do that."
Reagan accepted Baker's resignation with deepest sadness and hand in the operation.
really relish the thought of getting back to private life. It has been an extraordinary experience working with Ronald Reagan.'
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- Howard Baker Jr.
Former White House chief of staff
tion of the White House while the Iran-contra investigations were being conducted."
Duberstein, 44, will be Reagan's fourth chief of staff. Like Baker, Duberstein is well known for his expertise in dealing with Congress. He was the White House's chief legislative strategist during part of
Reagan's first term, and after a stint with a business consulting firm, returned to the White House as Baker's deputy on March 23, 1987.
"Ken will be my principal aide and will lead the White House staff as we head into the home stretch." Reagan said in a statement. "He is an outstanding manager and skilled strategist who has been fundamental to the significant accomplishments, foreign and domestic, we have achieved."
Baker's resignation caught Washington by surprise. He once had promised, "I'm going to be here to lock the door and turn out the lights" when Reagan leaves office next Jan. 20.
Baker denied that his resignation signaled unsteady times at the White House.
Anti-gun columnist fires at trespasser
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Syndicated columnist Carl T. Rowan, who has written frequently of the need for stricter gun control, shot and wounded a teen-ager who had taken a pre-dawn swim in his backyard pool Tuesday.
Police said a record check indicated that Rowan's handgun was not registered as required and the case was being referred to the local federal prosecutor's office.
Ben Smith, 18. of suburban Chevy Chase, Md., was treated at Georgetown University Hospital for a wrist wound and released. He and a young woman companion were charged with unlawful trespass.
Rowan said he was awakened at 1:55 a.m. by a noise in his bedroom window.
"Then I heard a woman shout or scream and I thought it was on my property," he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
phone interview with the associated
beekeed out and saw four people and called the
pence. I waited for the police with my revolver. When I saw the police cars arriving, I opened the pool door assuming the police would want to come in that way.
"I was confronted by a tall, young man striding over as if coming into my house.
"First I said, 'Freeze.' Then I said, 'I warn you I have a gun.'"
"I said, 'Aw hell, man,' and kept coming."
"I fired a warning shot and it hit him in the eye."
Police apprehended Smith and Laura Bachman, 19, of Bethesda, Md. Rowan said that the others in the group of teen-agers got away.
the group or test station.
In an interview with radio station WMAL, Smith acknowledged he was on Rowan's property, but he said that he made no threatening gestures.
said that he had no right to shoot me," Smith said. "I mean I guess I was trespassing. That's in his pool to shoot a person, for swimming in his pool."
I shook a petson to shwimming Smith said he was trying to flee when he was
confronted by Rowan.
confirmed by howl.
"I was in my underwear soaking wet. I had just climbed out of the pool. I never spoke with him — he just shot me," Smith said.
Rowan, a liberal columnist, wrote in October 1985 that there should be a "complete and universal federal ban on sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns."
But Tuesday, he said that he had bought his gun a few years age when he was receiving threats. He said his gun was registered.
"I believe when you are getting threats you have to be prepared to protect yourself," towan said.
He said he did not remember the exact year he bought the gun. The District of Columbia, which has some of the strictest gun regulations in the country, passed a law in 1976 saying that only guns already then registered were legal for private possession.
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