Word: reaganization
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Stein, 73, is a former special prosecutor whose 1984 investigation of Ed Meese, then Ronald Reagan's Attorney General-designate, was wrapped up, in contrast to Starr's, with a minimum of time and expense. As for Cacheris, 68, during the Iran-contra scandal he got immunity for Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall. He also got CIA spy Aldrich Ames spared from the death penalty...
...Washington insider's Washington insider. A former president of the D.C. bar, Stein is the man politicians turn to when their dignity is on the line, the issue is delicate or the stakes are high. He represented Oregon Senator Robert Packwood when he was charged with sexual misconduct. Reagan press secretary James Brady hired Stein when he filed several lawsuits after being paralyzed by bullets meant for his boss. And when a special prosecutor was needed in 1984 to investigate Reagan-aide Ed Meese, it was Stein who was summoned...
...debates a few months ago over the relative influence of world leaders--Lenin over Stalin, Reagan over Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh over Che Guevara--involved a lot of learned discourses conducted as if we were sipping sherry in a faculty lounge. But the shift from Lenin to Lennon was wrenching. Indeed, the fights we had over artists and entertainers involved a lot of passionate diatribes conducted as if we were swigging tequila at all-night bull sessions in a sophomore dorm. In order to rationalize the process (somewhat), we divided the world of arts into 20 categories, ranging from writer...
...Bruce, charge d'affaires in Iran. Those of us who went through that ordeal with Carter were grateful he was President, because he and Rosalyn Carter showed the hostages and their families enormous compassion. The second is that in the week prior to the dedication of the multimillion-dollar Reagan Building and the renaming of Washington National Airport, it was barely noted in the press that Secretary of the Navy John Dalton held a ceremony naming the latest nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter. As Dalton so aptly put it, Carter is like a submarine in that he runs "silent...
...Vietnam War, Chaplin's American fortunes turned. He orchestrated a festival of his films in New York in 1963. Amid the loudest and longest ovation in its history, he accepted a special Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1972. There were dissenters. Governor Ronald Reagan, for one, believed the government did the right thing in 1952. During the 1972 visit, Chaplin, at 83, said he'd long ago given up radical politics, a welcome remark in a nation where popular favor has often been synonymous with depoliticization. But the ravishing charm and brilliance...