I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.
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“And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.”
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