A Letter from the White House
SHORRIS, EARL
A Letter from the White House To the Editor: Thank you for this opportunity to reply to the ugly, unfair and incorrect assertions about The Presidency which were first published in...
...The League of Nations might have survived and World War II might have been avoided if President Wilson had not been struck down by illness...
...We rest our case...
...Reagan but the institution of The Presidency...
...Perhaps Adlai Stevenson might have used the word "fraught" or spoken of living "to the full" or said, "I think we put paid to the Fleming bitch," but not Mr...
...Reagan...
...Thomas may have more than literary connections in the Soviet Union...
...Thomas' version of a summit meeting says, in a purported address to the nation, "I would simply point out to you that the situation was very fraught...
...The President of the United States is described as a man unable to think clearly, troubled by neurological damage...
...The President stepped in, and won us over to the side of The First Amendment with the same great commandment that inspired the Right to Life campaign: "The show must go on...
...Given his own history, one would expect him to be more interested in Senator Joseph Biden of the Democrat Party...
...The White House Stapf /per/Earl Shorris Author, "Power Sits at Another Table, " "Under the Fifth Sun...
...In our opinion it qualifies as shouting "Fire...
...Customs and submitted to scrutiny by the Department of Justice before being allowed into the country...
...Fortunately, a fellow in the China section of the Central Intelligence Agency who had stopped by the White House on another matter was kind enough to decipher its intent...
...And another important figure is called Mako, as if to indicate that there is something fishy in the White House...
...After consultation with National Security, we have decided to make only a brief comment on the portrait of Mr...
...A Letter from the White House To the Editor: Thank you for this opportunity to reply to the ugly, unfair and incorrect assertions about The Presidency which were first published in Britain in the guise of fiction and have now made their way to our shores via Viking...
...A slim volume (only 160 pages), it is obviously priced to reach a wide audience ($15.95...
...As his friend, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3rd, said of Our President, "Could that be the flaw in the ointment of his personality...
...Early on, the principal American player in Mr...
...Many of your readers will be pleased to know that this book was examined by U.S...
...Instead of these men, we have comic figures named Requiem and Jake Bloomfield...
...Reagan may have made is in allowing the book into the U.S...
...Thomas intended this bizarre work to undermine the U. S. position in the nuclear arms limitation process...
...It is not often that people in this Administration have been afforded access to the readers of intellectual magazines...
...in a crowded theater...
...Our President is interested in defending innocent people from the ravages of nuclear war...
...In America, the great communicator doesn't say "shan't...
...Is he a deluded nuclear disarmament freak or is he yet another British subject on the Soviet payroll, a man so subtle as to be willing to malign his real bosses for the sake of stopping Mr...
...President whose thoughts are dominated by sexual fantasies, we who toil in the same building in which our martyred President John F. Kennedy lived and worked during his tragically brief time in office are appalled and disgusted...
...Or as Our President would put it, Who's he talking about...
...Our reasons are these: The amazing accuracy of the description, including the details of the Gorbachev sexual arrangement, leads us to believe that Mr...
...Thomas writing...
...His Strategic Defense Initiative is a way to save lives...
...First Amendment questions...
...If that is the case, if the harm to world-safety-throughstrong-defense is real, the error Mr...
...To listen to the character in the book, President Tiger O'Reilly, you'd think that Ronald Colman had been elected President of the United States...
...To attempt to savage this historic lifesaving plan by calling it Independent Unilateral Defense, or IUD, and claim the President learned about it from a child's computer game is not satire...
...Although it is usually unwise to judge a book by its cover, we were thrown off stride by two aspects of the cover of this book...
...All of us were puzzled by this sentence...
...To defame his memory with a portrait of a President without a memory is to abuse the very idea of history...
...If one were writing about a summit, Secretary of Defense and former National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci would surely have a place in the scenario...
...Now we come to the difficult question: About whom is Mr...
...In fact, the confusion of sexual acts with acts of war belongs to the period of the Kennedy Presidency...
...This is not only anti-American, it is enormously offensive to those of us who are here in the White House, where the memory of Woodrow Wilson's last days is not a joke but a tragedy...
...We can only conclude that Mr...
...Thomas' hastily written book may seem to some readers to point out the human foibles of those who negotiate the limitation of arms, its real effect, if any, will be to reduce the likelihood of an agreement...
...When he attempts to amuse his anti-American audience by describing a perverse sexual episode involving the beautiful female companion of the Gorbachev-like character and a U.S...
...in the first place...
...our writings have been confined, for the most part, to the National Review, Commentary, and recently, the New Republic...
...There was a brief but spirited discussion of national security (or should we say planetary security) vs...
...Reagan, who is youthful but not inexperienced, has taken quite a different view from President Kennedy's confrontational tactics in the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...Thomas...
...Thomas is an event, but Summit with its canny political satire, its hilarious insights into the sex of politics and the politics of sex will delight and amuse even Thomas' most devoted readers...
...First, there is a comment by Ms...
...All of us who know The President and work with him on both broadcast and print materials assumed it was someone else speaking...
...At that point in time, some satirical writers were trying to keep a young, inexperienced Chief Executive from going over the line...
...it is dangerous to all the occupants of the globe, which Our President often refers to as "The Great Theater of Life...
...Our President is an American who speaks the American language...
...While Mr...
...There are some characters we can't quite figure out...
...Were it not for the caricature of Mr...
...Thomas' choice of The Presidency for his subject...
...Could it be that Our President loves freedom too well...
...All of us on the White House staff, as you can imagine, feel very strongly about the book in question, Summit by D.M...
...Still, we cannot understand why someone who is demonstrably anti-American would want to reveal the beastly secret of the Gorbachev perversion...
...Gorbachev and his female companions...
...Apparently the aim of the author is to malign not only Mr...
...And how could this business have been carried on without Max Kampelman, our chief negotiator...
...Also on the cover are caricatures of President Ronald Reagan and the Communist Party leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Erica Jong: "Each new book by D.M...
...Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, which is the only practical plan to save the world from a nuclear holocaust...
...Reagan on the cover, the reader might not guess that he was one of the targets of this moral assassination...
...We were surprised by Mr...
Vol. 71 • February 1988 • No. 3
