Reagan’s Memory? Semi-Photographic, Former Aide Says

Ed Rollins, President Reagan’s former political adviser, said today the President is a hard worker with a “semi-photographic memory” and with the help of his new chief of staff will be “very much involved” with running the nation.

Asked on NBC’s “Today” program how long it will take Reagan to put the Iran- contra scandal behind him now that former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. has replaced Donald T. Regan, Rollins said the President is “a very hard worker. He has a clean-desk mentality. . . . He has a semi-photographic memory and I think that you’ll find over the next weeks and months he’ll be very, very much involved.”

Rollins also said First Lady Nancy Reagan, who is said to be a prime mover in the ouster of Regan, will become involved again if she sees something that is not in the President’s best interest.