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REAGAN was ironically the first president able to repair the damage Nixon did to the status of the Oval Office in the eyes of Americans. Yet Reagan--with 115 indictments credited to his administration, the embarassing calls for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese III and the scandals of Irangate--has done nearly as much damage to the country as Nixon's crimes did. The difference is between Nixon's obviously deceitful intent and Reagan's inability to comprehend the situations involving...
Sinner, who last month was convicted of embezzling $147,000 from Shepherd's law firm in St. Louis, contended that Shepherd had encouraged her to take the money. The office of Attorney General Edwin Meese dismissed that allegation as "nonsense," and neither of Sinner's charges against Shepherd has been substantiated. However, the initial media look into Shepherd's background established that he is a member of an all-male St. Louis club and another club that is all white. Though Shepherd said he is determined to remain in contention, his troubles are an additional embarrassment for Meese, who needs...
...wave after wave of scandal has battered Attorney General Edwin Meese and eroded the credibility of his Justice Department, he has clung for months to the time-honored defense of officials in trouble: the accusations were politically motivated. But last week, in a series of dramatic confrontations, that defense crumbled...
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General William F. Weld '66, who suddenly resigned last week in apparent disapproval of his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, yesterday said he "wanted to teach" at Harvard beginning this September...
Weld has spoken on the subject as a guest lecturer at the Kennedy School several times in the past, most recently at a symposium in 1986, he said. "I shared a platform with Edwin Meese called 'Government and Morality,' if you can believe it," Weld said...