berman@ihuxm.UUCP (Rational Chuzpah) (08/21/84)
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Paul Dubuc excuses the recent incident where Reagan was dumbfounded
at a reporter's question about possible talks with the Soviet government.
Nancy Reagan whispered an answer ("we're doing all we can"), which
the President repeated. Dubuc claims it was due to a hearing aid
problem.
That's not the way the former Senior Editor of the New York Times,
John B. Oakes, saw the incident. Oakes, who has undoubtedly attended
innumerable Presidential briefings writes:
"In a recent incident at Mr. Reagan's ranch, a reporter
asked him a question about the prospects for talks
with the Soviet Union about controlling arms in outer
space. He smiled; his wife prompted him, and he
mindlessly repeated the vacuous phrase she had supplied.
When a President comes to that on a subject such as
this, it's time to call it quits.
"If Mr. Reagan's closest advisers were sincerely interested
in protecting the President, as well as the Presidency,
they would recognize that he is not up to running the
White House for four more years. They would urge him to
withdraw before the election...
"If, however, the Republican Party does succeed in propping
him up through the election, and if this is the kind of
President the American people choose, then we should be singing
in the next four years not 'God Bless America' but
'God Help America'".
(NYT, 10/18/84)
Strong words, indeed, from the bedrock of the establishment!
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Andy Berman
--------------------------------------------------------------------albrecht@bsdgvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (09/05/84)
[] I suppose you mean strong words from the LIBERAL establishment! -- Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. SDG/Devon