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Such spirited fun disturbed David S. Broder, the Post's chief political correspondent, who severely chided Kinsley but not Bradlee. Broder linked Kinsley with Patrick J. Buchanan, the irascible White House director of communications, as two juveniles playing mock war games, while the "grownups recognize this disaster for what it is, a calamity for the nation." So stuffy an outburst is rare for Broder, but it illustrates an attitude common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians...
...article had been written without White House clearance. Buchanan waited until the middle of the Redskins-Giants game on Sunday before calling Chief of Staff Don Regan's most youthful aide, Thomas Dawson. Instead of allowing Regan's "mice" to read and pick apart the piece, he simply informed Dawson of what it said. White House Aide Dennis Thomas later griped, "It was like notifying somebody that a guy was out of the plane but before he hit the ground. There wasn't much we could...
...Monday Buchanan attended the President's weekly policy lunch. Usually Buchanan tries to get there early so he can grab the seat right across from Reagan, the better to exchange some banter and eye contact. But this time he was late and had to sit at the end. "I wasn't happy about that because I wanted to get his reaction." The article did not come up, but Reagan showed he was in tune with the hard-nosed approach. He claimed that he was personally responsible for breaking the news of the secret dealings, quipping, "I ought...
...Buchanan took that as a cue to continue his crusade. In a TV interview he elaborated on the President's joke and attributed it to "one guy at the White House." Said Buchanan: "Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese are the Woodward and Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...
Back at the White House on Tuesday, he ran into Don Regan, who advised, "You've got to give him some distance." But in his appearances on four networks over the next two days, Buchanan cut it pretty close: when asked if he was speaking for Reagan, Buchanan would answer that he "had reason to believe that the President approved of what I was doing...