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THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1981 Page 9 National eagan returns from hospital United Press International WASHINGTON — With a wave and a ile, President Reagan walked out of the hos- |tal Saturday and was whisked back to the White House a dozen days after a gunman tried to kill him. H Reagan, wearing a bright red cardigan and in high spirits, shunned the normal wheelchair exit of a hospital patient. ■ “I walked in here and I’m going to walk |)ut, ” he jokingly told some 75 doctors, nurses and orderlies massed in the lobby before step ping into a waiting limousine. He was flanked Mrst lady Nancy Reagan and daughter Patti was dried blood or tissue. “Things should move along very quickly now,” said Dr. Dennis O’Leary, chief of clinic al affairs. O’Leary estimated it would take four to eight months, perhaps longer, before Reagan was “totally back to normal. ” But he said the president could start working half days in the Oval Office next week and might make a heli copter trip to Camp David, the presidential retreat, in a week or 10 days. The president, shot in the chest March 30 in i assassination attempt, looked thin and oved stiffly Saturday, but was obviously ippy to return to the White House to finish y_;cuperating. I “This looks like a nice place,” the president id as he arrived home in a light spring rain. Vice President George Bush led a crowd of T members gathered beneath umbrellas at eWhite House portico to welcome him. One le said Reagan “looked tremendous.” Doctors at the George Washington Medical :nter discharged the president when a final of chest X-rays showed that a spot on his ftlung was clearing up. They said it probably Doctors told the president at 7:25 a.m. that they were discharging him. That was just as well, because according to White House depu ty chief of staff Michael Deaver, Reagan in formed the doctors, “I’ve already made up my mind on that.” The president followed the hospital rules of a wheelchair ride only as far as the elevator when he quit his third-floor hospital suite at midmoming. He emerged from the elevator into the lobby, then out the door, on his feet. Reflecting increased concern over the pres ident’s safety, some 100 Secret Service agents and police were deloyed in the hospital lobby and around the entrance when Reagan emerged into a light spring rain. Standing expressionless just behind the president was Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, the man who shoved Reagan into his waiting limousine when the shots rang out at the ^Washington Hilton 12 days earlier. The presidential motorcade passed several hundred waving passers-by as it wound its way a half-mile downtown. The shots that wounded Reagan and three others were fired from a crowd of reporters and bystanders which gathered to watch the presi dent leave a Washington hotel after giving a speech. White House press secretary James Brady, wounded in the head, was the only one of Reagan’s fellow victims who remained hospit alized. Police officer Thomas Delahanty was dis charged from the Washington Hospital Center about the same time the president left George Washington hospital. Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy went home at midweek. Brady is "making excellent progress,” O’Leary said. “Mentally he is virtually almost 100 percent of what he was before all this happened. The return of personality is evolv ing steadily; it is very far along. “He is a little subdued now, but we think it is a pretty good sign because it means he is in touch with reality.” Hinckley may have stalked Carter: FBI United Press International WASHINGTON — The FBI believes John W. Hinckley Jr., charged with trying to assassin ate President Reagan, stalked President Carter last fall, the New York Times reported Sunday. Hinckley since the March 30 wounding of the president out side a Washington hotel has led agents to the conclusion the drifter, 25, also tracked Carter. An FBI spokesman refused to comment on the report. The Times said the agency’s extensive background check on The newspaper said there was no conclusive evidence linking Hinckley to Carter, though records of the suspect’s travels and eyewitness accounts suggest to the FBI he may have considered attacking the former president. Hinckley reportedly fol lowed Carter to Nashville and Chicago during last fall’s cam paign and also may have stalked him in Washington in Septem ber, December and January. Hinckley was arrested Oct. 9 at the Nashville Metropolitan Airport for carrying three con cealed weapons just before he was to board a flight to New York. ush stays low key while in charge United Press International WASHINGTON — For nearly ) weeks while he filled in at the bite House, Vice President ^orge Bush has used the Cabinet jom, the Rose Garden, the osevelt Room — everything President Reagan’s Oval Bush’s transition to a higher level of power was eased because the president was totally out of commission only a few hours, while under the effect of anesthe sia during the operation to remove the would-be assassin’s bullet from his lung. While assuming many of the ishiug burdens of the presiden- Bush has taken extraordinary tion not to try to assume any of pomp of the office. Described firm, diplomatic, low key, and amboyant, Bush brought ig a smooth and uninterupted i\v of power during the time of For the remainder of the time in George Washington University Hospital, Reagan was able to make any major decisions. But interviews with top Reagan and Bush aides show that while chaos and draining emotion sur rounded the shooting of the presi dent, Bush moved calmly and effi- Chuck ( Lggie skate-j e surfeluk's" rding when an dies in crash in high speed race rs United Press International TULSA, Okla. — A spectacular crash at the Tulsa Speedway on the ulsa Fairgrounds killed a 47-year-old race car driver, the Highway 'atrol said. Acel H. Taft was dead at the scene from a skull fracture and a broken neck. j Officials said Taft’s car was following two cars during the race late Saturday, when the rear-end mechanism of the first vehicle failed, (Causing the second car to bump into the rear of the front car. 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Bush ordered his helicopter to land on the grounds of the vice presiden tial mansion rather than the White House lawn, which he felt was re served for the president. It im mediately set the symbolic tone. For the next 12 days. Bush assumed the president’s position, but not necessarily his powers. There was never any question that the trio that runs the Reagan White House — chief counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver — was still in charge. Bush took care to do what was correct. He presided at a Cabinet meeting, but not from the presi dent’s chair. He greeted the depu ty prime minister of Poland in the ceremonial Roosevelt Room; a poster child in the Rose Garden and held other meetings in his own White House office — never using the Oval Office. The Bush staff said they didn’t look it up in the history books, but there were probably some who re membered the resentment an ea ger Vice President Richard Nixon triggered when he all but moved into the Oval Office when Presi dent Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. Eisenhower’s press secret ary and close confidant Jim Hag gerty is said to have bluntly told Nixon he was overstepping his powers. And no one had to remind Bush of the tense feeling Secretary of State Alexander Haig sparked on television shortly after Reagan was shot, saying “I am in charge” until Bush returned. Bush’s work day may have been an hour or two longer than usual, but he found the crowded sche dule and added chaos after the assassination attempt tiring. 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