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...persona more than a change of views in his second career as tart questioner on ABC'S This Week with David Brinkley (where he is billed as plain George Will). "When you accept an institutional identification," he says, "that does change you." Still a Tory, or a "Scoop Jackson Republican," he is no longer so chummy with Reagan; his continued advocacy of higher taxes irritates Reagan, and Will says he gets invited to the White House "not that much" any more. Given television's need for quick judgments, Will saves his more closely reasoned or idiosyncratic views...
Reagan unabashedly used Scoop, but did so in a way that honored his memory, his family and his country. The President threw out his big arms and gathered everybody in-Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Baptist, old, young, hawk, dove, hardhat, tycoon. And none of them could argue, only lean back and enjoy the political theater that Reagan had adroitly and effortlessly stage-managed...
Reagan stood the memory of Scoop beside him on the world's stage ("one of the great Senators in our history"), and the two of them ("Let others push each chic new belief ...") marched as defenders of "the permanent against the merely prevalent...
...Henry Jackson [knew] that America could not and must not attempt to float along alone, a blissful island of democracy in a sea of totalitarianism," said Reagan. Take note, voters, that the Democrats have just drafted a platform that has strong withdrawal symptoms. "And it was very much like Scoop to see that there was a growing problem in Central America," declared Reagan. Think again, you doubting souls who voted last week to end CIA help for Nicaraguan contras. "Scoop used to say, 'In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics,' " the President continued. Come...
...Washington Monument stood white above the deep summer green of the trees. Reagan squinted and smiled and soothed. "Scoop believed in arms control, but he refused to support any initiative that would not ensure the survival of the West." Remember that, fellow citizens, when you hear cries from the timid to rush to the table with the Soviets. "Scoop never stopped speaking out against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union," said Reagan. "And he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home. Scoop Jackson just would not be bullied." Let the people contemplate the Democrats' anguish...