| "Loving, supporting terms"? I cannot say. I only met Perle once, and did not speak with him at any length. I read, of course, some pieces of his at the time, which were generally supportive of the administration, but the topic was not his personal feeling. I do not recall ever meeting or reading Feith, and I have only a vague recollection of reading a piece or more by Wolfowitz, I cannot recall the content. All that I can say is that the main body of neoconservatives I read regularly, saw speak, or have met, such as Michael Novak, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, William Bennett, John Silber, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and a number of others, were strongly pro- Reagan. It was rare for Commentary to publish an article critical of Reagan, and Commentary was "neocon" central. |
