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...shrink from bitter infighting or who lacked driving ambition. Henry Kissinger was certainly in his element there. And seven years after he left the Government, he is still a significant figure on the public stage who draws fierce loyalists and unrelenting foes. A leader among the foes is Seymour Hersh, who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the story of the My Lai massacre...
...Hersh did not restrict his comments to the Nixon Administration. In response to a question from a member of the audience, he charged that the Reagan Administration had satellite evidence of an Argentinian buildup nine days before the seizure of the Falkland Islands. President Reagan's failure to act before the crisis began, he charged, is characteristic of a foreign policy of "chaos...
...Hersh claimed we now have a "presidency by kitchen cabinet," adding that major foreign policy issues are being compressed by Reagan's aids into paragraph form so that the President can understand them...
...being programmed," Hersh said...
...Hersh, who has won numerous major journalism onwards, began his career in 1959 as a UPI correspondent. After serving as a New York Times correspondent form 1963-1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 when he uncovered the Mai Lai Massacre