Soon after, Donald Regan, the new chief of staff, sent word to a small group of trusted friends and Administration officials seeking advice on how Reagan should approach his last four years in office.

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Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan learned that lesson for himself, when, as the story goes, he hung up on Nancy during a telephone call in 1987 -- and later turned to CNN to discover that he was being replaced.

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