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The Report That Important Decisions In The White House Were Based On Astrological Advice Is Most Disturbing.
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The report that important decisions in the White House were based on
astrological advice is most disturbing. The results could undermine faith
in astrology.
-- Letter to the Editor, "New York Times", 1988
Related:
The spectacle of astrology in the White House -- the governing center of the world's greatest scientific and military power -- is so appalling that it defies understanding and provides grounds for great fright.
The easiest response is to laugh it off, and to indulge in wisecracks about Civil Service ratings for horoscope makers and palm readers and whether Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for his sign....
David Brinkley: The daily astrological charts are precisely where, in my judgment, they belong, and that is on the comic page.
George Will: I don't think astrology belongs even on the comic pages....
The reported resort to astrology in the White House has occasioned much merriment.
It is not funny. Astrological gibberish, which means astrology generally, has no place in a newspaper, let alone government....
Legislation is a series of catastrophes that results in a policy. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either.
-- E. B. White...
The White House: The new home of the Whopper!!!
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. -- Gary Wills, in "New York Times", 1975
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, US News & World Report, Jan 11, 1988...