What do the people think about the Tower nomination? ABC News. Washington Post poll published March 1 found 52 per cent in favor of Tower’s confirmation (43 per cent opposed); 56 per cent agreed that his drinking habits would not “make him unfit” to serve as Secretary of Defense… Sen. Malcolm Wallop says the rejection of John Tower by Armed Services Committee “was designed and planned from the start” by Senate Democrats as a show of power over President Bush… Jeane Kirkpatrick, who says she admires Sam Nunn, finds that he voted “like a Democrat” on this one. . . . Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) pooh-poohs Nunn’s statement that Tower would be dangerous as the man with his finger on the nuclear button: “The last I heard, the only man with his finger on the button is the President of the United States, and I think the American people would be very upset to learn that the President had delegated that authority.” . . . Columnist Charles Krauthammer comments: “The next thing you know the Secretary of Health and Human Services will be requested to take a safe-sex oath.” . . . And George Will, who takes a surgical scalpel to the reasons Democrats on Armed Services gave for rejecting Tower, proclaims a Rule: “In Washington, when four reasons are given for doing something, the real reason is none of the four.” On Nunn, Will has this to say: “It is simply smarmy for him to issue those simpering disclaimers (‘I’m not saying . . .’) while destroying a man’s reputation, career, and life with studied ambiguities.” . . . Mary McGrory is not surprised that Bush could have stooped so low as to have chosen Tower in the first place. “Although he professes to ethical sensibilities, [Bush] spent eight years in the Reagan White House where the motto was: ‘Anything Goes.’”
“Just as I suspected—someone’s selling them Lego.”
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