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...eyes of right-wing critics, the eight or so aides who meet almost every day in the White House have diverted the President from his ideological principles and led him down the primrose path of moderation and compromise. To others, the ad hoc group is the dynamo behind Ronald Reagan's legislative successes and the key to the biggest challenge of his presidency, the proposed 1982 tax increase. "It is the driving force in the White House today," says a top Reagan loyalist. "It sets the agenda for what we're doing and where we're going...
...encountered only similarly vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal, however it turns out, is a long overdue reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some system for housing the pages together, in a dormitory perhaps, and for keeping them under supervision. At present the pages live wherever they choose and roam about Washington in off hours as they please, an arrangement that in view of their youth...
...organization on a daily basis has tended to reflect the more liberal views of members like Murphy. Adding to the resentment against Murphy has been the fact that he regularly breaks the eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not criticize another policeman." In May, Murphy was informed that an ad hoc committee would be considering sanctions against him fora variety of "derogatory statements," including "The police world-I generalize-is a racist world. We're reflective of society itself," and "The I.A.C.P. is today dedicated to preventing most of the reforms that are essential to the improvement of police service." Condemning...
...Affairs, says of the storms of the Haig era: "Neither Haig nor the White House was right in any of this. The problem is the system for making policy. It is neither designed for, nor capable of, making coherent policy on any major issue. Policy is all made ad hoc." It will take more than a change of the name of the Secretary of State from Haig to Shultz to overcome that difficulty...
...also disagreed over the role of the academic community in the NAACP's plans. Academics "do not have much of a role," Kilson said. The NAACP "hasn't learned to use the potential friends it has in the academic establishment, he explained, adding that the group prefers an "ad-hoc" association...