Diary Entry - 10/18/1987
Key Facts
President Reagan participates in a question and answer session with the Press about the First Lady's recent hospitalization.
President Reagan meets with a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders to discuss the U.S. reprisal against Iran and the U.S. overall strategy in the Persian Gulf.
Began day with a phone call to Ida Nudel in Israel—recently released “refusnik.” Then off to hospital. Nancy is doing fine—she got out of bed to have lunch with me at a table—then I took her for a walk around the halls. I had to come back to the W.H. about 4 P.M. to preside over the 4th concert—last in the series of programs that go on public T.V. as “concerts from the W.H.” It was a great show & will be on next month. Then at 8 P.M. our gang & the Cong. leadership met up in the oval yellow room. We briefed them on our retaliatory strike against the Iranians for their attack on the Am. owned tanker of Kuwait. We intend to take out a radar & command control tower in the Gulf with Naval Gun power. This will be done early tomorrow morning.
