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...when White House Staff Director David Gergen saw an advance copy of a column by Jack Anderson. Administration sources, Anderson wrote, said that Haig "has one foot on a banana peel" and might fall soon. Gergen called Haig, who called Anderson. The rumors, the Secretary of State told the columnist, were the work of a top White House aide who has been running a "guerrilla campaign" against him that was tantamount to a "sabotage of the President...
Saying that he was nervous about speaking at a college that "I couldn't have gotten into," author, columnist, and television commentator Andy Rooney discussed his views of the ills of America at the Law School Forum last night...
...trenchant commentators wondered about the implications of pitting American interests against Israeli interests. George Will, the Reagan administration's favorite columnist, said in an unusual act of defiance that the defeat suffered by the Jewish lobby signalled a victory for the Saudi lobby, in alignment with American corporate interests. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) noted that the fuss over the so-called undue influence of the Jewish lobby comprised the most insidious form of anti-Semitism--an implicit denial of the right to speak out. While the AWACs sale might have a couple of positive economic effects--improving the balance...
After dispensing opinions on the economy and President Reagan's foreign policy, the Washington columnists on Martin Agronsky's television show turned animatedly to a subject closer to heart. George F. Will was the most intense about it: "The presence of a gossip column on a great paper, which the Post is, is inconsistent with the mission and dignity of the Washington Post." Printing gossip, he went on, is "pandering to the voyeurism of a celebrity-struck public. When you then combine [this] with the doctrine that says we are not responsible for the factual nature...
...Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist's source, who got it from "two members of the Carter family-the personal family." Let them sue; the Post's countersubpoenas would fly. After the retraction, a chastened but unrepentant Bradlee insisted that, alas, "my source changed his number on me, from bugged to taped"; the item...