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From The Associated Press

Michael K. Deaver, 69. a close adviser to Ronald Reagan died Saturday at his home in Bethesda, Md. of pancreatic cancer. Deaver was celebrated and scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how the president looked as much as what the president said. Reagan’s chief choreographer for public events, Deaver protected the commander in chief’s image and enhanced it with a flair for choosing just the right settings, poses and camera angles.

“I’ve always said the only thing I did is light him well,” Deaver told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. “My job was filling up the space around the head. I didn’t make Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan made me.”

Evangelist Billy Graham, 88, was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home in Asheville, N.C., after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said. Graham’s doctors said he was fully alert and his condition did not appear to be life-threatening,