Word: derwinski
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...EDWARD DERWINSKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Bush. What he did: "Went to a "safe" pizza parlor staked out by Secret Service several miles outside town. Topping: Sausage. Indiscretion: Asked why he wasn't at the speech, he told several people what had happened. The White House admonished him. "What was I supposed to do? Lie? I was watching a ball game? I was visiting a sick aunt...
...Administration plugged into the church across the board," observes Derwinski, now Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "Not just through the church hierarchy but through individual churches and bishops. Monsignor Bronislaw Dabrowski, a deputy to Cardinal Glemp, came to us often to tell us what was needed: he would meet with me, with Casey, the NSC and sometimes with Walters." John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, whose father was born in Poland, was the American churchman closest to the Pope. He frequently met with Casey to discuss support for Solidarity and covert operations, according to CIA sources and Derwinski. "Krol...
Though William Casey has been vilified for aspects of his tenure as CIA chief, there is no criticism of his instincts on Poland. "Basically, he had a quiet confidence that the communists couldn't hold on, especially in Poland," says former Congressman Edward Derwinski, a Polish-speaking expert on Eastern Europe who counseled the Administration and met with Casey frequently. "He was convinced the system was falling and doomed to collapse one way or another -- and Poland was the force that would lead to the dam breaking. He demanded a constant ((CIA)) focus on Eastern Europe. It wasn't noticed...
...office in Honolulu until a recent transfer, says dismissingly of the bush vets, "Some of these people would live this way if they had not been to Vietnam. We have some who are always wanting this and wanting that." But such service requests, says Tiano's boss, Edward Derwinski, the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, are exactly what the veterans should be making. Says he: "The customer is always right." Derwinski, whose department has been embarrassed by recent reports of negligence at VA hospitals, concedes that his bureaucracy has not always acted compassionately. "We have had a communications gap with Vietnam...
Secretary Derwinski says he will not make a final decision on the issue until two more reviews of the scientific literature being prepared for his department are completed this May. But unless that search uncovers compelling evidence that eluded the CDC, most of the veterans seem unlikely to get Government relief from their Viet Nam nightmare...