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...days later, the President's commission turned around and bit its creator. The Commission on Organized Crime noted that the Reagan Administration had "contacts" with one corrupt union, the Teamsters, and its president, Jackie Presser. The report warned that such sociability with a tainted union "can lead to an erosion of public confidence and dampen the desire to end racketeering...
...Teamsters was one of the few unions to support Reagan in the 1980 election. After Reagan won, Presser was made a consultant on union matters to the President-elect's transition team. He was a guest at the White House in 1983 when he met with Ed Meese, then a Reagan aide and now the Attorney General. After the 1984 election, Reagan and Meese visited Presser to thank him for his support...
Asked about the report, Meese replied that any meetings with labor leaders were "not designed or intended to interfere with the proper investigation of organized crime," although the Administration's intent was not the issue. Meese might also have replied that such improprieties have not been confined to the Reagan Administration. The commission pointed out that some New York officials had been character witnesses for Anthony Scotto, a vice president of the Longshoremen's Union, before he was convicted in 1979 of racketeering. The commission's counsel noted that Jimmy Carter had even campaigned with Scotto...
...King protégé, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, offered a sterner message in a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was not merely a non-threatening dreamer, said Jackson. "Dr. King was not assassinated for dreaming but for acting and challenging the government." He went on to lambaste President Reagan for failing to support any of King's efforts during his lifetime...
...regularly scheduled six-month follow-up to his surgery for colon cancer last July, President Reagan paid a return visit last week to an operating room in Bethesda Naval Hospital. What had been billed as a routine examination proved to be a complicated series of tests. Doctors clipped three tiny polyps from the wall of the President's colon and shipped them off for examination. A surgeon shaved off a tiny growth on the right side of Reagan's face and sent it, too, for a biopsy. The six-hour medical work-up also included X rays, blood tests...