THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, March 23, 1996 TAG: 9603230012
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
As I read about the opposition of Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., to the promotion of Cmdr. Robert Stumpf to the rank of captain in the U.S. Navy because of some secret adverse information about Stumpf, I cannot help but compare the record of Stumpf - a decorated Persian Gulf war hero, distinguished flight leader of the Navy's Blue Angels, survivor innocent of charges of misconduct at the Tailhook Convention and a proven Navy leader - with the record of the man promoted to the highest rank of all: commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, whose record strongly supports charges of draft-dodging, adultery, philandering, pathological lying and sleazy associations and manipulations all of his adult and political life: a man, who, if today he had to submit to a security clearance, as Commander Stumpf must, would fail.
Ironic, ain't it?
G. RUSSELL EVANS
Norfolk, March 13, 1996 by CNB