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Article: Eagleton's Report On `Nitwit' Nominee Awaits Response
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- April 19, 1989
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Joseph V. Reed's nomination to the personal rank of ambassador
while serving as chief of protocol was delayed for another week
yesterday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, perhaps in part
because of a letter that describes him as a "14-karat nitwit."
The letter was written in 1982 by then-Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton
(D-Mo.) to then-Secretary of State George P. Shultz after a visit to
Morocco, where Reed was ambassador. Eagleton wrote, "George, for the
first time in my 14-year Senate career, I must write an
overwhelmingly negative report on an ambassador." Eagleton said he
found the embassy staff "demoralized."
Eagleton's letter was entered into the committee record by Sen.
Jesse ...