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Recently, the Washington Post published two columns attacking our book Killing Reagan. We believe the hostile criticism is both misguided and disingenuous and is motivated by a small group of Reagan loyalists who are vehemently opposed to any objective look at the 40th President.
It should be noted that Killing Reagan is, on balance, a book that lauds the man but apparently that is not enough. The Reagan cabal insists on deification.
The primary controversy has to do with a high level White House meeting held on March 2, 1987, in which President Reagan was under close scrutiny by his own advisors.
Battered by the Iran-Contra revelations and the resignation of Chief of Staff Donald Regan, Mr. Reagan was under siege by the media. Just days before the meeting, incoming White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker tasked his assistant, James Cannon, with investigating how the White House was functioning. Cannon's written report was shocking – it described an often disengaged president and an undisciplined environment in the Executive Branch, where underlings sometimes even forged the president's initials on documents. That troubling assertion is specifically mentioned in The New York Times obituary of James Cannon, published on September 20, 2011.
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