European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday january 28,19bb com tans George will let s hear about judgment not relative wealth if Bob Dole says one mate word even one More about his Rise from the social depth he should be sentenced 10 go Bowling. Thai punishment would be deliriously consign because Dole might bump into George Busti. Who recently has allowed Ashow he is a Bowling Alley kind of Guy. So All of you Stanley to Walskis put your elbows on the Formica top of Stella s Kitchen table and imagine How George Bush feels suffering through a rerun of this Issue. In 1980 Ronald Reagan that Horny handed son of toil Sas Hayed out of his tar paper Shack Orcas it a log Cabin in Pacific Palisades to Challenge Bush Tor the nomination. Rag unites hurling epithet the Way boys in school dining rooms hurl hard Rolls charged Bush with being a clean fingernails one Day in 1980, several journalists badgered Bush about his ability to understand folks who Are jus1 folks because he has t suite Rcd or been tempered by Bush financial difficulty you mean journalist Well whatever we mean by the dark night of he soul of that sort of personal difficulty. Bush have you Ever sat and watched your child die journalist thank god no. Bush i did for sin months. Journalism what did thai do to you is that the answer enough already. Today s Dolc Bush debate about who looks spin tier in Bowling shoes ii As a re viewer said of a dreary novel like a Long hike Home in wet socks and gym shoes uncomfortable and Annec let s agree that they have both suffered enough and that their argument has enabled us All to make the same boast. Such arguments recur because icy arc rooted i Republican history. Democrats can nominate the gently bom for Juk but republicans recoil from the idea. Robert tall and Nelson Rockefeller from oppo site wings of he party failed. Nikon knew the Rule when the going gels Tough the Lough wrap themselves in their Wile s Republican cloth As you might end eco republicans cannot gel the hang of the class struggle so things get confusing. Tall a president s son and a Yale was beaten by Dewey and Eisenhower iwo men from modest backgrounds backed by the wicked East. But at least tall was fro Ohio conservatives called him a Tribune of the Plain people. Winkle and Hoover made sacks of Money at Landolt later did but As Dole understands republicans Are permitted to make it just not inherit it. Coolidge Rose by he effervescence of his personality that s a joke son and Harding Rose because things lighter than air do that. Charles Evans Hughes was the humbly born son of an immigrant Clergyman. Not for 76 years not since William Howard Tatt have republicans nominated someone barn to wealth. Dole s Point is mint his life has etched on his consciousness an awareness that Many deserving people need help from government. But he can sing that re Frain in a different less grating key. The one he improvised recently in a new Hampshire debate the candidates were asked to Square their Ril Ual denunciations at drugs and government spending with the Frei that drug rehabilitation facilities Are underfunded. Dole who Falls somewhere Short not know that his five word punch line was a refrain from George Harrison s top of the Charls Rock record " it s going to Lake As Harrison say Money to do it the coun try wants candidates especially republicans with the Independent judgment to say that some things have not been done right. As vice president Bush is cast in the unenviable role of the Republican party s dripping faucet saying and saying and saying something that most american doubt thai no significant course correction no tem pc ramen tougher than Reagan a is required. If Dole i chosen it will not be for Bis Charm which although real is rationed and is like rationed sugar especially pleasing when experienced. If Dole goes to the top of the charts it will be because of a Point he has Yel tomake. He has made his paint about Bush that Bush has lived a life of lateral movement a Point that May or May not justify negative inferences about Bush s inner resources. But Dole s positive Point about himself cannot be merely that the experience of social hardships is itself a virtue. Dole s task now is to show How his private biography foreshadows Public Benefit How a quickened capacity for empathy and a steely will can translate into the sort of presidency that ought to come next. We no Lon pail Antu s William Safire Deaver Sheds Light on Nancy s secret Powers Michael Deaver thai icarus of influence paddlers has a new lease on Freedom. A Federal appeals court struck Down the Independent counsel Law Asun constitutional holding that in invade the authority of the executive Branch. Because the overconfident Deaver prosecutor disdained a parallel appointment from the Justice department As the ran Contra prosecutor was careful to accept Caver might never to Payfor lying under oath. The Justice department which hate the idea of the Independent counsel is pleased i Hope the supreme court re verses bottoming its decision on the principle that no Man should be judge prosecutor or jury in Hii own Case. In the meantime let a Caver have respite he deserves our thanks for producing a useful Book with mickeyilenkpwit2 called behind the scenes in which the author talks about Ronald and Nancy Reagan. And throughout the Reagan presidency hard liners have been muttering about a mysterious clique in the while House that was undermining the Reagan re solve. The yearning for policy by poll scr the debilitating desire for a place in his Oil even acquired a whispered name Nancy ism. And for years official spokesmen have been Pooh pooling this suspicion As typical right Wing paranoia about non existent moderate cabals. But the paranoids turned out id have had real enemies. According to a Caver who was in closer than anybody clique with the first lady at the Center dedicated to appearances popularity an the Reagan image had a considerable effect on policy especially foreign policy. I worked for 4v years to keep the right wingers from getting you out in front on this Central America Issue Deaver says he told the president in 1985.". For you to go on television to push for More Public support of the con tvs is a that argument undoubtedly made for years worked for Loo Long Reagan did not expend political capital when Public opinion was form ing. Heaver makes Clear that Hisco conspirator in protecting the presi Dent from the consequences of taking principled stands or from the heat of defending conservative aides who came under Media flip was mrs. Reagan. That provides some new fuel to the controversy about the proper role or a first lady. Aboul a year ago i ventured Ozap mrs Reagan in this space for her behind the scenes role in forcing Dona Dregan then White House chief of staff to resign. Ii was an open secret in Washington that she was on the Telephone to her Media favourites telling them tha Tregan was on Hij Way out in of acct push ing him out the door before the Lime chosen by her husband and the top aide. When in was suggested Here that this political Hal Cheling was not Only unseemly but made her unsuspecting Hus band seem like a wimp a Large Hoo a erupted. The Washington times excoriated such wife Healing and a. Washington Post columnist exulted in the president s having a wife who understood what had to be done and was willing Todo the dirty Femin iils who never thought of Nancy Reagan As one of their own suddenly came to her defense and the president denounced such com cup Libb contemptible maybe but not s Book Wilh All its Toad Ying and the last minute cuts to avoid offence makes Clear thai Nancy Reagan effectively manipulated the president and Hiss Alt to achieve what she thought was Clark then National Security adviser saw no Hope in trusting the russians writes Deaver. He fell betrayed by Mike Deaver when Nancy and 1 were Able to persuade ther resident to Lone Down the evil Empire in Guage Clark had favored. When Bui went to Nancy and was told Point Blank that 1 stood with her he decided it wartime logo and the chief of staff Regan s Dan were numbered when Nancy Well to the president and said flatly la can t Deal with that Man anymore. The aide s sin was in crossing the first lady s decision to keep the president from having a news conference. That s poetical Power Utt elected and misplaced. A first lady has every right to adopt a cause and oct press her views vigorously on any subject but should not operate behind to president s Back to tout certain aides and destroy others. That goes for when woman becomes president too the first Hubby ought not to meddle secret Yin his wife s exercise of Power. Thanks Mike unwillingly perhaps you made our Points. In Vort Tirol not s the opinions expressed in the cola Auu ind Auldor an this Page represent that of the authors and Are id no Way to to considered n Rena ening the Tlewin of the Stan and stripes or the unlit stain government
