Is it time to re-evaluate Williams Bennett as a supposedly “conservative” leader? Charleston’s Southern Avenger sure thinks so.
‘When assembling his cabinet in 1980, newly-elected President Ronald Reagan tapped Texas scholar Mel Bradford to chair the Department of the Humanities. Bradford was a conservative’s conservative, a Southern gentleman, a brilliant thinker and indicative of the possibilities for conservatives with Reagan’s victory.
Of course, when it was “exposed” that Bradford had less than flattering views of Abraham Lincoln (mostly by neoconservative elements and beltway Republicans) the controversy destroyed Bradford’s chances.
The position instead went to William Bennett.’
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