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...that the President broke his White House rule and agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a $5 million fund drive for a new Rockwell museum being built just outside the artist's beloved Stockbridge, Mass. This was too close to Reagan's heart. White House Counsel Fred Fielding said he would take the heat for turning down the request, which came from Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte. But Reagan insisted: "I want to do it. Norman Rockwell was wonderful...
...himself a "teacher of social ethics" rather than a theologian, became more interested in spiritual themes as his thought matured. His major statement of theology appeared in The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes, 1941 and 1943). Fox shows how profoundly Reinhold's evolution was influenced by the counsel of his younger brother H. Richard, a brilliant Yale theology professor who was painfully aware that he always stood in Reinhold's shadow...
...also have replied that such improprieties have not been confined to the Reagan Administration. The commission pointed out that some New York officials had been character witnesses for Anthony Scotto, a vice president of the Longshoremen's Union, before he was convicted in 1979 of racketeering. The commission's counsel noted that Jimmy Carter had even campaigned with Scotto...
...Likud in the past. The pro-Labor Jerusalem Post asked how Herut could be considered fit to govern when its leaders accused one another of being "power-mad cheats, liars, vote riggers, megalomaniacs and, all in all, criminals." At his home on Zemach Street, Menachem Begin kept his own counsel but was reportedly distraught at the Herut bloodletting. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Robert Slater/Jerusalem
...Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and four other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Attorney General Edwin Meese to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Deaver's discussions with former colleagues on matters including South Korean trade, tax breaks for Puerto Rico and continued support for Rockwell International's B-l bomber. Within 90 days, Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted...