WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration The White House is beginning to wonder about the CINs failure to give our troops the right information about Grenada. The agency's excuse—it was handicapped by...
...The scariest thing about the 007 episode to the thoughtful people working in the national security area was the bureaucratic rigidity displayed by the Russian commanders and the ineptitude of the Russian pilots, who weren't able to identify the most identifiable silhouette since the P-38...
...Thirty years ago gays tended to be liberal...
...The agency's excuse—it was handicapped by Jimmy Carter's cutbacks—doesn't ring so convincingly after 35 months of the Reagan administration...
...This is especially a problem with defense—practically everyone outside knows we have a lot of weapons that don't work or aren't needed, but top officials feel they must never say anything bad about any of those weapons...
...A major problem for Senate Republicans on defense issues is that there are no Ernest Hollingses or Gary Harts or Sam Nunns—men who want a strong defense but know enough about the subject to know where the real waste is...
...Today, Robert Bauman is hardly the only conservative whose sexual preference departs from the Administration's preachings...
...The moderates at the White House thought they had triumphed when they got rid of Judge Clark...
...These appointments were made largely because the NofzigerMeese faction had become alarmed about moderate infiltrations of the White House in the first days of the administration and had begun to insist on ideological purity and Reagan loyalty in the appointments made at the lower cabinet levels in February, March, and April of 1981....There's a high probability that the Reagan administration, if reelected, will seek tax increases immediately but under the guise of tax simplification and reform...
...But what kind of triumph of moderation were the air strikes in Lebanon...
...One of the great problems in getting sensible positions from this administration arises from the fact that the assistant secretary level is populated largely by conservative and libertarian ideologues who never let the facts interfere with their prejudices...
...By the way, Paul Thayer, the one man the moderates were relying on for restraint at the Pentagon, has been cut off at the pass by Caspar Weinberger...
...The next great scandal in Washington may be prompted by the large number of homosexuals in the Reagan Administration...
Vol. 15 • January 1984 • No. 10
