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Reagan on Jim Webb

Dean -- Speaking of Jim Webb, this is from today's WaPost:
... Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) likes to boast of his service as President Ronald Reagan's Navy secretary. But now we learn that Reagan didn't have such a good impression of him. "Sec. Webb resigned over Navy budget cuts," the Gipper wrote on Feb. 22, 1988, according to "The Reagan Diaries," the just-out collection edited by Douglas Brinkley. "I don't think Navy was sorry to see him go." Ouch.