The Times was President Reagan's favorite paper, and Washington neocons fawned over them. When the Times was feeling their oats in the 1980s they became almost cocky, filling their pages with tributes to the wisdom and adventures of various anti-Communists. With the Post afraid to sneeze toward their Right, and the DC Left nowhere to be seen, the Times became a valuable source for tracking interesting people. Strangely enough, they were also more willing than the Post to print CIA names.
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