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Personalities always cause debate, and in 1983 former Secretary of the Interior James Watt, ex-National Security Adviser (and Watt's replacement at the Department of Interior) William Clark and Comedian Joan Rivers ("tasteless and cruel") drew the public's ire. Yet readers rose to defend celebrities they deemed badly treated-such as the late anchorwoman Jessica Savitch and Elizabeth Taylor ("Why do journalists feel compelled to constantly snipe at Elizabeth Taylor's weight?" chided...
...probably by emphasizing the nuclear issues championed by Cranston. Reagan could also be vulnerable on environmental issues there--as well as in some of the northwestern states whose populations have been rubbed the 3 wrong way by the policies of Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, James B. Watt. Still, given the area's basic conservatism, the West is Reagan's to lose...
...positions. But when that right gets bastardized by the appointment of someone who lacks all qualification for his jobs-a la a Kenneth Adelman or a William Clark-or of someone who has demonstrated an avowed antagonism to the principles he is supposed to serve-a la a James Watt and now Edwin Meese-the Republic is diminished. And Congress must step in to prevent...
...credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick, or Ray Donovan. Nor can he be derailed for his stands on issues like busing or affirmative action; while we disagree with his opposition to these principles, they are not enough to reject his nomination. Yet Meese's role in many White House actions suggest an ideological rightist view of the law that goes beyond principled conservatism. Not only did Meese push tax exemptions for racist schools and Reagan's secrecy...
...Reagan's most trusted political advisers, Clark is eager to repair the President's image in an election year. Indeed, he has already sent a number of small fence-mending signals to the environmental community. Reversing a Watt policy, he offered the National Wildlife Federation hitherto-refused federal data on the amount of poisonous lead shot that duck hunters inadvertently scatter into lakes and ponds. With that gesture, he buried the hatchet with the largest conservation group in the U.S. Clark also promised that he would end the moratorium imposed by Watt on acquiring new land...