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...year and a half, Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, history buff and former professor, urged Ronald Reagan to sit down with presidential biographers to talk about preserving the record of his White House years. Last week on Valentine's night the minisummit was held around the Hatfield dining-room table in Georgetown. Four noted biographers, the Librarian of Congress and their wives spooned homemade strawberry ice cream and counseled Reagan to cling to every scrap of evidence for history's sake...
Freidel made the point that the more he got to know about F.D.R., the better he found him to be as a President. Hatfield contended that Hoover would be judged by history not as a President who ended an era but as a man who began one Nash brought mirth when the discussion turned to the press: Hoover once said that any President should have the right to shoot at least two people a year without explanation...
...that matter, did Senate Republicans toe Reagan's line. Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield added $1.2 billion for public works jobs into the Senate version of the bill. Said he: "Jobs are needed now." By a 50-to-46 vote, his colleagues agreed with his approach...
Hollings' move was accepted after only brief debate. His margin of victory came when four Republican senators, some of whose votes were unknown, sided with him. They included Sen Mark Hatfield of Oregon, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, and Mark Andrews of North Dakota...
...Hatfield understands what most of his GOP colleagues do not: that the Administration is getting a warped view of reality by looking at Guatemala--and for that matter the rest of Latin America--through an East-West prism. Most of Guatemala's problems have nothing to do with the U.S.-Soviet conflict, but are simply the result of decades of social, political and economic inequities. Of course the Soviets and their Cuban allies have taken advantage of the turmoil in Latin America, but only because the U.S. has made it easy for them to do so. By stopping the chaos...