CIA Reading Room cia-rdp99-01448r000401580046-1: THE ULTIMATE LOYALIST
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25: CIA-RDP99-01448R000401580046-1 Newsweek _ Time P a2 U.S. News & World Report Date -2-7 Alrzv If9f The Ultimate Loyalist From Andover to Texas to the CIA, George Bush has been a hard man to dislike, no matter what others were doing around him By Garry Wills A leading feature in this year's presidential race has been the competitive drama- tization of each candidate's concern about the problem of drugs. Border visits with the Coast Guard (to squint suspiciously at fishing trawlers) were alternated with sessions at schools and clinics (following Nancy Rea- gan's nicely charted rounds). No more en- terprising effort was mounted on this front than the Vice Presi- dent's appearances at Chaffey High School in Ontario, Calif., just before that state's primary. It took the form of three as- saults-a role-playing exercise, a box lunch with students who were addicts or were affected by addiction, and a speech to the student body. In the first session, George Bush was lectured on the dan- gers of "enabling behavior," that unwillingness to recognize the signs of addiction by which friends or teachers tacitly con- done a pervasive drug culture. Bush, with much prompting from an officious young director of the program, is to enact a teacher's concern for a student who has been nodding off in class. The Vice President, cast- ing his eyes uncertainly to the outer ring of reporters, asks what the other "students" will be do