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Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the committeethat drafted the council report, said the councilwill continue to push for the reforms contained inthe report. "I don't think he [Spence] should beso fast to dismiss our recommendations, becauseinformal input currently exists and isinsufficient," Mandery said...
...deal with. Regan never understood how to handle her. It has a lot to do with how he interacts with women." The chief of staff became notorious in the past two years for his remarks disparaging women's interests and intelligence. In the White House he tended to dismiss the First Lady's advice or, worse, to shunt off her calls to his assistants. "I have never seen a wife who gets into her husband's affairs so much," he told an acquaintance. "It's unfortunate that she doesn't realize how damaging that...
...ever played. (It wasn't.) For Reagan, the moral lesson comes first; it shapes the event, not the other way around. Perhaps Wills' most important insight into America's 40th President can be found in his discussion of Reagan's days as a sports announcer. Reagan's detractors, who dismiss the president as "just an actor" and view him as no more than a tele-prompted automaton, have not looked back far enough into his past. If they did, they would better understand the man and his appeal...
...Tower Commission merely confirmed and documented what all of us knew and too many preferred to dismiss for some time: that Mr. Reagan is a mental absentee; more than detached, he is disconnected from reality and the Administration he inhabits...
Some German and American commentators have gone so far as to dismiss the upsurge of Teutonic racism, citing the restraining effect of 40 years of national guilt. They should not. Germans have suffered for their fathers, and there is no reason to believe that Germany will again accept violent dictatorship; yet in trying to preserve its pride, Germany is retreating from the tradition of tolerance that it has tried to establish during the last 40 years...