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Kelley shows little grasp of Nancy Reagan's real contributions to the Administration. The First Lady was an astute political adviser on many matters. She played an important role, for instance, in getting Reagan to realize the severity of the trouble his presidency was in over the Iran-contra scandal...
...Senate's wealthiest members, Heinz had been an unlikely champion of unions, the aged and the disabled. After retiring from the Senate in 1984, Tower served as a U.S. arms negotiator and chaired the three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-contra affair. In 1988, George Bush nominated him for Secretary of Defense, touching off a bruising fight between Congress and the White House. Amid rumors of hard drinking and womanizing, - Tower was voted down by the Senate, 53 to 47, the first time in 30 years that a President had been denied a Cabinet choice...
...pursuing. And "national interest" requires a limited interpretation. The Communist presence in Vietnam did not constitute a national security crisis that justified U.S. intervention. And the Nicaraguan Sandinistas were not an expansionist national security threat that neccessitated hundreds of millions of dollars in United States aid to the Contra rebels...
...could the man Kennedy taunted be so resolute? And let's not forget those who derided him as a wimp, a lapdog, every divorced woman's first husband, a terminal preppy. His painful politeness and unwavering loyalty to Ronald Reagan through mountainous deficits and Iran-contra bumbling raised the question of his backbone. He waffled on issues like abortion and taxes, and even his supporters wondered in dark moments about his inner stuff. What this may suggest is one more flaw in our system of political assessment. In our dizzy campaigns we analyze a candidate too much from...
...Cold Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is appealing a six-month prison sentence for his role in Iran-contra, is soliciting donations to help fight his "liberal accusers." He has attached to each letter a dead leaf symbolizing the "winter that . . . freezes my spirit and numbs my heart. As time slips away . . . I desperately need your...