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Musing on these fulminations, Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson concluded that right-wingers "are very different from you and me. They have more bile." It may also be that liberals, centrists and conservatives are more accustomed to accommodating, to doing things together, while the radical right is a crowd of spiky individualists. But any definition of the press has to be wide enough to include them too, and others who live by their own rules
...Reagan's rather perfunctory rendition of these goals did little to reassure the groups involved. Moreover, his dutiful nods in their direction and his menu of proposals only riled up his core conservative constituents. Wrote Columnist William Safire, who in the past has supported Reagan: "The themeless pudding called this year's State of the Union address was a series of banalities intended to ingratiate the President with his political opposition; instead, this worst of Reagan speeches invited the grinning contempt it received...
...under Calvin Coolidge and an oft-mentioned presidential possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
...Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, who would feel libeled if called a liberal: "The White House is in full retreat-and if the President does not step out into the middle of the road and fire a pistol into the air, it will degenerate into a rout. Upon that assessment, those rejoicing at the spectacle and those sick at heart over it are in concurrence." Buchanan is among the sick at heart...
This rivalry slices deeper than most, affecting the towns as much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...