"Watch quite a bit. I watch the news and I don't like to tell you this, because you'll think I'm into some weird TV freak here, but we -- I have a set upstairs that has five screens on it and I can sit on my desk and whip -- just punch a button if I see one off on the corner, that moves into the middle screen, the other one goes to the side. Then I can run up an down the -- up and down the dial. So I -- and you can record all four -- four going at once, while you -- when you're watching. I don't quite know how to do that yet. But I cite this because Barbara accuses me of being too much -- not too much, but plugged into TV too often, put it that way. Love sports on TV." -- George H.W. Bush during a C-SPAN interview, on his favorite pastimes

Events of March 28 in THE REAGAN YEARS:

1983:  White House Chief of Communications David Gergen says, "This president spends more time taking care with this words than any of his predecessors.... His success indicates it's been a good investment. The man has a reputation as a great communicator."