PRAYER, PUBLIC PARADING
Hugh Sidey, writing on The Presidency in Time magazine, gives some advice to the new President in the Jan 5, 1981 issue. He suggests that there is a need for the President and his cabinet officers to relax, stay home and meditate — not run around the world and negotiate. He quotes the late Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News that they should make them “fly Allegheny.” The same sobering advice might be given to Cabinet officers. They too have been lured into ego- embellishing travel by their fleet of Air Force Jet Stars. If Reagan really does intend to give his Cabinet a decisive role in his deliberations and also insists that they set their departments in order, he should keep his Secretaries in town. They can go to dinner or to breakfasts and pray, although there are hazards in these activities too. Prayer breakfasts and other public moments of celestial meditation are not bad in themselves, it is…
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