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...substance of the memos. Indeed, he seems to be, in the uncomplimentary phrase of one White House aide, "content-free." He is conservative, but his ideological inclinations are visceral and seldom fine-tuned. Clark, a close friend of Reagan's, mainly seems to reinforce the President's rightward tendencies. On those rare occasions when he does come down hard on one side of an issue, Clark seems too emphatic, as if he seeks to be decisive for the sake of decisiveness. Says a senior State Department official: "He makes decisions that only he thinks have been fully thought...
...critics are justifiably suspicious. In several respects Reagan's policies seem directed more towards placating public opinion as towards achieving agreements, and Sunday's speech, however belatedly and begrudgingly spoken, further reflected that trend. Reagan was swept into office as the beneficiary of a general rightward shift that permeated attitudes on both domestic and foreign issues, and at a time when events--including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped...
...often banal or irrelevant. Even so, SRI can point to some impressive successes. SRI's brainstorming technique zeroed in early on the nationwide trend toward home health care and quickly held seminars on the subject. In addition, TEAM sessions in the spring of 1980 focused on the rightward political lurch in the U.S. and the growth of religious fundamentalism...
...react to criticism from the far right of your party that your Cabinet selections do not represent the rightward edge of your original constituency...
...think they know the people I have appointed very well, because I think the appointees do have a "rightward edge." One of the most important considerations I have had is that they agree with what I have enunciated as the policies of this Administration; we have picked people on that basis. I said also that I wanted people who were not necessarily seeking a job in Government but would have to be persuaded to take one and would even have to step down from achievements that were far greater in their own careers. I think I have followed that...