European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May 1985 Tough year for White House aide Rollins by Bernard Weinraub new York times t has been a difficult year for Edward Roll i As director of the Reagan Bush Campaign in he earned a reputation As a Able and Loyal political operative whose numerous friends expected that he would have his pick of rewarding jobs after president reagans election an initial Effort to make him postmaster general according to White House mishandled by presidential the Board of the postal service decided it wanted the Agency in the hands of a career postal then the new White House chief of Donald decided to rename Rollins White House Politi Cal a Post he had held for most of reagans first Rollins but after the labor Secre Tarys Job became available a few weeks later he made it Clear that that was the Job he had coveted for that fell through when Regan urged the president to name Bill the United states Trade to the labor in the in his first few weeks As political Rollins lost a publicized turf fight in the White House to Patrick Buchanan Over which Man would oversee the office of Public which deals with special women and other the first two months Here have not As pleasant an experience As i would have said a somewhat balding and surprisingly soft spoken former Amateur seated in his cramped West Wing Rollins spoke warmly about the chief of adding another chapter to his problems in his new friends said Rollins was Hurt and that Regan had been late in calling on him to see if he could quell the storm of opposition from jewish veterans groups and others to reagans plan to visit the Pitburg military cemetery in they said Rollins was called in a Day after it was disclosed that the president had accepted an invitation from the West German Helmut to visit the cemetery where is guards and other German War dead arc by then Rollins faced an almost impossible a fact made Only clearer As the reaction turned furious in subsequent the thing to do now is to try to reach out to our jewish to explain Why the president feels obligated to move ahead with his commitment to Chancellor Kohl and to argue within the White House that in that speech in the cemetery the president has got to reach out not Only to the american jewish Community but to the jewish Community around the Rollins theres no question of the outrage out he its an unfortunate but weve got to look in a White House where most officials seem fearful of talking to reporters the director of refuses to communicate with the press Rollins despite his continuing an engaging Man who Speaks with disarm ing Candor about about the political parties and about the on a staff laced with Ivy leagues and establish a photo Edward Rollins ment he is one of the few officials with a working class i come out of a Boston Irish Catholic my father was a shipyard he republicans were Only bad and when 1 eventually became a my father  talk to me for a were a pretty political attending College in the 1960s in where his family had Rollins became a Republican by i was in College when Reagan was he i was student body president at California state College at the campuses were All in tur i had to work Summers to go to Reagan vowed to keep the campuses which meant a lot to a lot to other people like i think my Story is typical of a lot of people who grew up in democratic Blu Collar discussing the next presidential in which vice president Bush is now regarded As the Republican Rollins said i think its the vice presi dents nomination to but i think there Are three or four other candidates who Are very credible and can go All the Jack Bob Dole the new image of Bob Dole has a populist Howard Bak ers great strength was that he was clearly a television he Doest have that theres also a lot of grassroots Appeal for someone like Paul on the democratic Rollins voiced More Uncer i dont think you can underestimate Gary Hart in he Cuomo is a new an exciting but my sense is he wont sell Well in the Long run a new York Liberal tends to be a Little too Pugna tends to turn off southerners and Kennedy he May be the easiest to Hes got very High like Mondale started with High and its hard to break Rollins said the vice presidential candidacy of Ger Aldine Ferraro probably eased some of the pres sure in both parties to place a woman on the National the key test in picking a vice he is whether he or she adds a major electoral state that you dont get yourself by being the if Ferraro would have Given Mondale new she would have been Worth the Hosit just Takoff Togo Poplace Johnq Apost shop make today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across i invite 4 destiny 8 mock 12 actor Chaney 13 hebrew month 14 lot area 15 labor 16 comic Crosby 17 Stellar Bear 18 endow instalment words 21 Field judge 22 decay 23 Indian toilers 26 farm layer 27 craze 30 Keats poetry 31 Sera Sera 32 cheese Type 33 soggy 34 computer glitch 35 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