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Finally, on Jan. 21, deliberately seeking a confrontation, the Reagan Administration sent a routine request to Wellington asking for permission for the U.S.S. Buchanan, a destroyer, to call at a New Zealand port during the ANZUS military exercise, named Sea Eagle, planned for March. The Buchanan is a conventionally powered vessel, but since the U.S. refuses, by long-standing policy, to state whether a particular ship is or is not carrying nuclear weapons, the New Zealand ban effectively applied...
Syndicated Columnist Patrick Buchanan has been one of the Reagan Administration's sternest critics from the right. He has taken a harder line than the President on arms control, and described a modest jobs bill backed by Reagan as part of "a series of calculated maneuvers to soften the image of Mr. Conservative into Mr. Conciliation." Buchanan has been even more suspicious of his colleagues in the press: as a White House speechwriter from 1969 to 1974, he crafted some of Vice President Spiro Agnew's most caustic attacks on the news media. In a column last year Buchanan described...
...with some bemusement last week that the Washington press corps learned that Buchanan had been named White House director of communications, with responsibility for selling his friends in the Administration to his friends in the media. The appointment was a concession to Reagan's right-wing supporters, who want greater representation on the White House staff. Said Washington Post White House Correspondent Lou Cannon: "The question is, How can you be an effective spokesman for policies and people you yourself don't agree with?" White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan acknowledged Buchanan's potential conflicts: "I reminded...
Stephen R. Buchanan...
...goes in and out of government," was not trained in political neutrality, as were earlier print, radio and television reporters. Many, he notes, even owe their original prominence to their political backgrounds: Jody Powell, Bill Moyers and Pierre Salinger were presidential press secretaries, and William Safire and Patrick Buchanan were Nixon speechwriters. Only Salinger and Buchanan had previously worked on newspapers. Bailey recalls the "spectacular stumble" of syndicated conservative Columnist George F. Will, who, when criticized for helping coach his friend Ronald Reagan for the 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, said he felt exempt 5 from the rules of neutrality...