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Reese reeza at flex.com
Sun May 7 04:56:53 PDT 2000


At 07:32 AM 07/05/00 EDT, JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 5/7/00 1:53:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, reeza at flex.com
>writes:
>
><< What do we think of them? Are we back to judging people by the actions of
> others again?
> >>
>
>Reese, then:

Thank you, Justin,


>The key thing: I do judge politicians by the people they appoint. Part of
the
>reason Nixon was evil was because of the actions of Henry the K; part of the
>reason Reagan was evil, although by accounts a personally nice guy, was
>because of Jean Kirkpatrick, William Casey, Elliot Abrams, et al.
>
>To a lesser extent that goes for one's intellectual heros. What would you
>think of Greenspan if he professed admiration for Hitler as a political
>theorist?

I see your point, and acknowledge it, it's a point well-taken.

I hope you understand what I was getting at, also.

Reese



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