Who Should've Been This President's Men? --- The Best and The Worst Of Reagan's Appointees
With the thought that "personnel is policy," we asked a range of notables to name those Reagan appointees who had best and worst served the nation:</br></br>Paul Burka, executive editor, Texas Monthly</br></br>BEST -- James A. Baker III (chief of staff): Shut out Far Right and its social agenda, did most to keep administration in conservative mainstream.</br></br>William Bennett (secretary of education): On most important issue of our time was consistently outspoken and consistently right.</br></br>Sandra Day O'Connor (Supreme Court): Clever appointment -- a woman, so impossible to attack from left, but also anti-abortion so satisfactory to right. Eased fears of conservative judicial revolution while changing direction of court.