Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxm!berman From: berman@ihuxm.UUCP (Rational Chuzpah) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Whos In Charge Here? Message-ID: <1044@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 09:50:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxm.1044 Posted: Tue Aug 21 09:50:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:34:09 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 48 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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! -- ************************ "el pueblo unido, jamas sera vencido" ...ihnp4!ihuxm!berman Andy Berman --------------------------------------------------------------------