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Scrapbook Reagan-Hating at the Reagan Library When the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, explores "The Reagan Legacy" on May 20, the keynote address will be delivered by Mike Wallace of...
...He'll give a "personal perspective" on Reagan...
...Actually, it seemed to us to be a rather thorough and thoughtful compendium of the very ideas Roszak and his ilk believed in then and probably still do...
...The Employment Standards Administration has three subdivisions...
...If there's no new CR, it will again be furlough time in Washington...
...They were writing about an institution as strong, and immutable, as a mountain range...
...There's the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs...
...Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy...
...Why Wallace...
...Few great works have been written about the joys of family, but there are plenty about the ambiguities...
...Massachusetts's Joe Moakley, the quintessential liberal hack, would be back at the House Rules Committee, presumably doing what he did best in the 103rd Congress-muzzling House debate and thwarting votes on popular items like a real balanced-budget amendment...
...The Reading List In the week of Easter and Passover, the Reading List could not help but reflect on the joys-and the ambiguities-of the family gathering...
...After all, if it were fair to blame Rush Lim-baugh for Timothy McVeigh, surely the media could find room to blame the Unabomber on Al Gore...
...Dead parents, evil stepfathers, loving aunts, and the noble father-figure Barkis and mother-figure Peggotty, who constitute David's true family...
...Fitzwater feared Wallace "would ask mostly about Iran-Contra . . . never stop at 45 minutes . . . ask technical questions to stump the President . . . ask the same question several ways to show inconsistency...
...While Labor secretary Robert Reich has torqued up the rhetoric, the behavior of his own department's Employment Standards Administration suggests the minimum wage isn't a priority at all...
...Obey supported Bill Clinton's $16 billion pork-laden "stimulus" package in 1993 and regards the balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto with horror...
...Promising to give Reagan a chance to build the historical record, Wallace wangled a 45-minute interview with President Reagan shortly before he left office...
...In Anna Karenina, the novelist refuses us even that haven by showing us the unhappy complexities of married life and its inability to satisfy the most restless souls...
...The Man Who Loved Children, by Christina Stead...
...Since the Reagan Library has made a habit of seeking the imprimatur of media and political figures deeply hostile to the Reagan legacy and the man personally, all one can say is: There they go again...
...Tolstoy's previous novel, War and Peace, concludes with an idyllic image of family, a blessed private life after the disruptions of war...
...a few days of furlough for the slightly less important workers' comp division...
...The Maurice Bishop Appreciation Act Sen...
...Well, here's a preview of the Democrats who would likely chair some of the major House committees in Gephardt's "can-do" 105th Congress...
...National Public Radio featured the preposterous countercultural novelist and critic Theodore Roszak condemning the Unabomber for the slipshod prose of his 35,000-word manifesto...
...Scrapbook Reagan-Hating at the Reagan Library When the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, explores "The Reagan Legacy" on May 20, the keynote address will be delivered by Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes...
...John Conyers of Michigan, who opposes the death penalty and is a trial lawyer's delight, would take charge of the House Judiciary Committee...
...But does he understand the Reagan legacy, let alone respect it...
...Get this: 20 furlough days, the maximum allowable...
...There's the Wage and Hour Division, which handles minimum wage laws, among other things...
...Al Gore and the Unabomber Remember the relish with which the press (and the president) explored the connection of the Oklahoma City bombing to conservative political philosophy...
...He's a favorite of Mrs...
...As for that tax cut you've been waiting for, the prospective chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Charles Rangel of New York, has deemed Republican tax-cut proposals just another form of "racism...
...Happy families are all alike, after all...
...David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens...
...Of course, the world's greatest writers (those who wrote before this century) hardly imagined that family would come to be an impermanent, almost consensual thing...
...Perhaps that's why they felt no hesitation in stressing what we might call the "downside" of family life...
...And House minority leader Richard Gephardt hopes voters will give Democrats "another chance to show what we can do" as the majority party of the 105th Congress...
...As the head of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey of Wisconsin would pump more of your tax dollars to every agency and department in the federal bureaucracy...
...The continuing resolution under which these divisions are operating runs only through April 13...
...Reich plans no furlough days at all for the apparently crucial affirmative action division...
...And the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, largely devoted to promoting affirmative action...
...Downsizing the Minimum Wage Guys Is the Clinton administration harping on the minimum wage out of concern for workers or because its hopes for a Democratic Congress rest on that notorious $35 million in union spending promised by AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney...
...At the helm of the National Security Committee would be Ron Dellums of California, known for his love of deposed Grenadian Communist leader Maurice Bishop and one of 54 Democratic leftists who sought a federal injunction to stop President Bush from dispatching troops to the Persian Gulf...
...So who gets furloughed...
...And the minimum wage division...
...If you want to be depressed for a couple of weeks, this remarkable novel is for you: the portrait of a suffocatingly close and sloppy family run by a liberal do-gooder whose love for his children masks his own totalitarian sensibility...
...John Sweeney, call the DNC pronto...
...In his memoir Call the Briefing, Reagan press secretary Marlin Fitzwater recalls the last time Wallace was supposed to give a sympathetic rendering of the Reagan presidency...
...And that's exactly what happened...
...Somehow, in all the coverage of the arrest of Unabomber suspect Theodore J. Kaczynski, the fact that he was driven to kill 3 and injure 23 (including David Gelernter, author of a marvelous piece for this magazine on the art of Winslow Homer) by a radical leftist enviro political stance has somehow been left to one side...
...Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who heads the National Democratic Senatorial Committee, believes it is "probable the Senate will be back in Democratic hands" come January 1997...
...Martin Frost of Texas, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says the Democrats will target a large number of Republican freshman "in order to regain control of the House...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 30
