WHY THEY ENDORSE REAGAN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: January 29, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHRISTIAN SCI1CE MONITOR
29 October 1980
OPINION AND COMMENTARY
From the media
Why
they
endorse
RIGA
President Carter came to Washington as
an outsider finding fault with everyone and
everything, tilting against the established in-
siders, and asking: Why Not the Best?
Why not, indeed? But what, in fact did we
get?
Only Carter's palace guard of zealous
Georgians remains unchanged and unfazed
by four years of failures and fiascos.
For some, the indiscretions have been
such that even close friendship with Carter
could not save them. I
Bert Lance, Carter's choice for the key Of-
fice of Management and Budget, was an early
victim of his own irregular banking practices. i
Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter's White House
doctor, quit before a special prosecutor could
probe why, and for whom, -he was writing
phony drug prescriptions.
Hamilton Jordan, after unacceptable so-
cial conduct at diplomatic dinners and in a
Washington bar, survived a special investiga-
tion of alleged drug use. But Tim Kraft a key
political adviser, was forced to quit the cur-
rent campaign and is now being investigated
because of similar allegations.
On the great issues - defense, foreign
policy and the economy - Reagan would be a
better President because he has better ad-
visers.
The real point is that Reagan would run a
real Cabinet. The Secretary of State would be
exactly that: the National Security Council
chief would not try to trump him regularly as
Zbigniew Brzezinski now trumps Secretary of
State Muskie, and before him Vance. The CIA
and our other intelligence a encies would be
given ac their true role in in llirenre sn
n r constantly surpriSPd 1?V-
that we are no lon-e. - __--
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New York Post
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