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...June 1983, without interest. Thomas became Meese's aide at a salary of $59,500 on Jan. 29,1981. He moved back to California in February 1982, as a regional administrator of the General Services Administration, earning $69,600. His wife Gretchen got a federal job with the Merit Systems Protection Board at $30,402 in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 1982. Meese obviously had chosen his own deputy. If the appointment of Thomas was made in return for the financial help, that would be a crime...
...salary of $59,500. Thomas left the Meese staff in 1982 to become a regional administrator of the General Services Administration in San Francisco, a $69,600 Government post. His wife Gretchen was appointed on Sept. 5, 1982, to a $30,402 federal job with the Merit Systems Protection Board. They join a lengthening list of Meese benefactors who got appointive jobs from the Reagan Administration. They include...
...amount of money involved was too small to merit a follow-up investigation, the officer explained
...have any business trying to stop those who like to sit by the runway and imbibe this form of expression. It may not be Swan Lake, but the First Amendment does not hinge on judgments of artistic merit or even redeeming value...
Still, Dallek's psychoanalytic approach is not without merit. In describing the Reagan symbolism, Dallek has hit upon the political nerve that makes him in some ways the Jonathan Schell of anti-Reaganism. Dallek, like the antinuke writer, is trying to assess the psychological impact of a horrible danger--in this case, Reagan's policies. Moreover, like Schell, Dallek describes in encyclopedic detail the features of his awful portrait of the Reagan phenomenon--a survey which reveals journalists and pundits sometimes shocked, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes simply sardonically amused. The value of the Dallek survey is that, like Schell...