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...result is an impressive level of competence. The American Bar Association (A.B.A.) has rated half of Reagan's first-term nominees to the district court exceptionally well qualified or well qualified, a level matched in the previous four presidencies only by the Carter Administration. At the appellate level he has chosen a number of stars. "John Noonan is one of the five smartest guys in the world," says one Justice official proudly. He is also the author of scholarly books on the history of bribery and the Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, though this clearly counts less than...
...giant investment firm of Merrill Lynch & Co., which he ran before going to Washington. He clearly does not enjoy the experience. He replies to criticism of his supposedly confrontational approach by hinting that he is more devoted to the President's philosophy and program than his first-term predecessor, James Baker. "Remember, a lot of this is Regan letting Reagan take the lead," the chief of staff told TIME last week. "There may have been times in the past when others have tried to get the President to compromise. But the question is, in a second term, what does...
Regan's staff, a mixture of onetime Treasury aides, first-term holdovers and recalled Reaganauts, has acted effectively in crises. It is credited with preventing much long-term damage from the President's visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, once the decision to go had been made, and managing the White House response to the Beirut hostage taking adroitly. Indeed, some of the Capitol Hill criticism of Regan seems to reflect primarily congressional nostalgia for Baker's assiduous wooing of legislators, which Regan has neither the temperament nor the inclination to duplicate...
...they do it? What did they do to themselves? How are they doing now? Here's a first-term report from a long-time listener - and (to indulge in its hosts' obsessively confessional tone) a radio fan and radic-lib who is glad the medium's political spectrum is now a little less narrow...
...that is history now. He is our President for the next four years. And in wartime, that means we owe him a second chance in the conflict he is conducting. I hope he manages to find some Democrats to put in his Cabinet. I hope he realizes that his first-term strategy of reaching out only to his base was detrimental to the war effort and to the unity of the country as a whole. I hope we see more of the Bush who campaigned from the center in 2000 than the Bush who governed from the extreme right...