Reagan's environmental woes
Yes, the photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth.
On Theodore Roosevelt Island in the...
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