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Minutes after Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork in 1987, Senator Edward Kennedy charged onto the Senate floor and thundered that the ascension of the conservative judge to the Supreme Court would be the end of America as we know it. Kennedy's blast set the tone for that doomed nomination, so White House officials felt no small amount of relief last week at the reception that John Roberts received when he made his trip into the liberal lion's den. Roberts emerged from Kennedy's office with his hide intact--and a map of Ireland. Sure enough, Kennedy had been...
Roberts later worked in the offices of the Attorney General and the White House Counsel during the Reagan administration, in addition to serving as principal deputy solicitor general under Kenneth W. Starr in the first Bush Administration...
...disclosure of her identity. ?There's a whole part of her career that she can no longer do,? says Wilson as he smokes a cigar on his back porch, with a view of the Washington Monument and planes coming down the Potomac River on final approach to Reagan National Airport. ?Professionally, obviously she can't work with the same amount of discretion she was able to work in before,? he adds. ?It would be very difficult for her to do overseas assignments...
...Ronald Reagan signed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, making it a federal crime, under certain circumstances, to reveal the identity of a covert U.S. operative. The act remained mostly dormant until special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald was appointed in December 2003 to determine whether anyone in the Bush Administration broke the law by telling journalists that Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an opponent of the Iraq war, was a CIA officer...
DIED. ARTHUR FLETCHER, 80, adviser to G.O.P. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, dubbed the "father of affirmative action"; in Washington. A onetime defensive end for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams, he developed the so-called Revised Philadelphia Plan as Nixon's Assistant Labor Secretary. Based on an earlier effort to diversify that city's racist construction unions, his was the first workable outline for affirmative action and became the blueprint for subsequent programs. He later ran the United Negro College Fund, where he coined the slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste...