Granted, this is "bush league" stuff compared to what would come later with Bill Clinton, but the fact is, one of Ronald Reagan's major flaws was that he was loyal to a fault and thus did a poor job of rooting out people in his Administration that did him harm. Even his wife Nancy will gladly point that out. After all, she would take matters into her own hands to get some of these people fired, Donald Regan being the most well-known example.
I like Ronald Reagan a lot. But I'm not saying he was without faults.