War Protest: Former veterans affairs administrator Max...

War Protest: Former veterans affairs administrator Max Cleland is concerned about the continuing military buildup in the Mideast. Cleland and John Wheeler, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will issue a statement Wednesday from the Army-Navy Club in Washington, D.C. Cleland said Sunday: “Every official working on Desert Shield should go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (and) meditate there a long time.”

Media’s Might: John Young, 45, a lonely, convenience store manager in Clearwater, Fla., will meet his future wife for the first time on Phil Donahue’s TV show. Young plastered “wife wanted” signs on the side of his car three months ago, and after the national press picked up his story, he received calls from women in 22 states. Young picked caller Marilyn Dozier of Lake Charles, La., as his intended, but the two have promised not to meet until a New York taping of the talk show Dec. 5.

Watergate Replay?: The Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., is delaying two Watergate tape exhibits so it can display paintings by Dwight D. Eisenhower and gowns worn by former First Lady Pat Nixon. Library director John Taylor said the decision is strictly financial. Stanley Kutler, author of “The Wars of Watergate,” protests: “Coverup is the order of the day.” Taylor responds that the library should “have the opportunity to place Nixon documents in a context he feels is accurate.”

The Other FDR: Ronald Reagan says in his new book “An American Life” that one of the heroes who influenced him the most was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reagan, often pictured as opposing such activist government, quotes Roosevelt in support of his free-trade views, says he borrowed Roosevelt’s “fireside chat” idea and agrees with him on the need for compromising with legislators. “This is not Franklin Delano Reagan, although he would very much like to be,” said Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel.