Was he happy about Haig's resignation? John Lofton, editor of something called the Conservative Digest, was asked the question that very night on ABC's Nightline. "For about a minute and eight seconds," Lofton replied— meaning, until he heard the name of Haig's successor. Once again, to a mind like Lofton's, Ronald Reagan was proving himself insufficiently Reaganite.
The dismay about Reagan among Reaganites brought an ill-assorted two dozen Some them together for a meeting a week before Haig's resignation. Some were writers and polemicists of standing, including Michael Novak, Irving Kristol and...
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