Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time she literally lost her head in a car crash. It decelerates outside Elizabeth Taylor's current home, which belonged to Frank Sinatra when his son was kidnaped and held for $240,000 ransom. It motors around the corner, past Ronald and Nancy Reagan's retirement villa. The original address was 666 St. Cloud Street, but because 666 is the number of the Antichrist, the Reagans petitioned the city council to have the number changed to 668, perhaps after advice from Nancy's astrologer...
Traditionally, presidents, freed from electoral considerations, have used their farewell addresses to try to steer the nation on a specific course or openly warn it about problems that they see as particularly important. In the first farewell address, George Washington warned the nation not to involve itself in entangling European alliances. Americans took these words so seriously that isolationists cited them decades afterwards...
...perhaps the most famous presidential address in recent American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation about the military-industrial complex and a Washington sub-government, which he thought was driving the nation toward irreversible damage. With the recent procurement scandals in the Pentagon and the budget deficit, crisis caused in part by defense spending, Eisenhower's warnings still haunt...
Having made such suggestions in his last chance to address the nation, Reagan showed us that he still lives in a past, a past in which the realities of war made it necessary for America to present a united and undivided front to the rest of the world. But, in case he hasn't noticed, someone ought to tell the President that the battle has been fought and the war has been...
...time when we face new challenges and dilemmas that urgently need our attention. A farewell address represents a serious opportunity to define the problems and offer solutions. If Reagan realized that he had this opportunity, he gave the American people no sign when he asked them to remain unquestioningly proud of their country. And that's too bad because this lame-duck President won't get another chance...