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There is a general impression that Ronald Reagan has been a strong President, perhaps the strongest since Franklin D. Roosevelt. And indeed in a number of ways Reagan has exercised power very effectively. Yet as keeper of the institution of the presidency


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L. Gordon Crovitz, whose article, “Crime, the Constitution, and the Iran-Contra Affair,” appeared in our October 1987 issue, is the assistant editorial-page editor of the Wall Street Journal.