"They were always freaks. They just didn’t fly their freak flags." Now Reagan’s Sec of ED Bill Bennet can recommend exorcism. Sec. Of Interior James Watt was Reagan’s Jesus will burn Jews in Jerusalem Dispensationalist Christian guy.

Former Reagan Education Secretary Bill Bennett said exorcists can help potential mass shooters with "deeply spiritual problems."

Ben Blanchet  Jul 7, 2022, 12:06 AM EDT

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James Watt was Reagan’s end times believing guy. I suspect he believed Jesus would burn unconverted Jews in Jerusalem in the year 2000.

"Watt periodically mentioned his Dispensationalist Christian faith when discussing his method of environmental management. Speaking before Congress, he once said, "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns, whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations."^[12]"

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James G. Watt

His antisemitism forced his departure.

"In his statement last night, Reagan made no mention of the furor stirred by Watt on Sept. 21, when he characterized the members of a coal-leasing advisory panel as "a black, . . . a woman, two Jews and a cripple . . . ."

Rather, the president said Watt was leaving because he "feels that he has completed the principal objective that he and I agreed upon when he became secretary of Interior." Reagan added that Watt "has initiated a careful balance between the needs of people and the importance of protecting the environment."

"Interior Secretary James G. Watt resigned yesterday, driven from office by a flip remark about a coal advisory panel 18 days ago after more than 2 1/2 years of controversy over his stewardship of the nation's natural resources.

President Reagan stood by Watt to the end, even as election-minded Republicans on Capitol Hill called increasingly in recent days for his ouster.

"Jim has done an outstanding job as a member of my Cabinet and in his stewardship of the natural resources of the nation," Reagan said in a statement "reluctantly" accepting Watt's resignation yesterday. The president said Watt, throughout his tenure a favorite of conservatives, will continue to serve "until his successor is confirmed."

Watt is the second major administration official in the environmental field to resign this year. The first was his protege, Anne M. Burford, who quit under fire as head of the Environmental Protection Agency in March, to be replaced by a moderate, William D. Ruckelshaus.

Watt telephoned Reagan at Camp David, Md., shortly after 5 p.m. EDT yesterday and offered his resignation. In a letter delivered to the president less than an hour later, Watt said he is leaving because his "usefulness" to Reagan "has come to an end."

Shortly thereafter, Watt read his letter to reporters assembled in a cow pasture near a ranch in California's Santa Ynez mountains owned by former Interior Department aide Thomas Barrack, where he has been vacationing since last Wednesday. Then Watt and his wife, Leilani, mounted horses for a ride around the ranch...

Environmentalists hailed Watt's resignation last night, but expressed little hope that his policies would be revised."

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Watt Submits Resignation as Interior Secretary

David Hoffman

October 10, 1983