Word: wrongheadedness
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For the old trouper it was a masterly performance. Speaking to the nation on Ash Wednesday in perhaps the most important address of his long political career, Ronald Reagan was simultaneously repentant yet still proud, regretful yet determined. He unflinchingly accepted responsibility for the Iran-contra scandal that has threatened...
Not even the staunchest advocates of aid, though, deny its many problems. One of the most glaring has been the intractable misery of Africa despite more than 20 years of intensive foreign assistance. A recent study by the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found "virtually no progress...
"In any other war, they would have made movies about us too. Dateline: Hell!, Dispatch from Dong Ha, maybe even A Scrambler to the Front . . . But Viet Nam is awkward, everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not...
How does Watergate compare with the current White House scandal? "Watergate was handled abysmally," Nixon said. "This is being handled expeditiously." In Nixon's view, it is easy to see how the Iran affair evolved. Reagan, he said, is a "big-picture man" whose underlings attempted to achieve his goals...
Journalists tend to think of the world of The Front Page as a kind of Garden of Eden, an unspoiled idyll of frantic competition and luxuriant dissipation in an era when reporters worried about the price of a shot and a beer, not the tax consequences of a vacation home...