Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole, and your record is not reassuring. You have steadily prevented Massachusetts' participation in the Ground Wave Emergency Network, a communications system designed to transmit warnings or presidential orders to the Strategic Air Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command if the nation were under nuclear attack. Of 56 intended GWEN sites around the country, 52 have now been completed. Only your state and Rhode Island continue as holdouts. This Massachusetts gap in the national-warning system is particularly disquieting since the primary radar installation for detecting a submarine-launched missile attack is located on Cape...
Moreover, you will find that over the past decade or so, the Soviet Union has enormously improved the number and quality of its conventional forces. The Warsaw Pact has particularly improved its capability for short-warning attack. Therefore we have a dauntingly long way to go in restoring the conventional balance. Yet we and our key allies are under immense budgetary and other pressures to shrink NATO's forces. So while strengthening NATO's conventional capability is desirable, it will require careful handling of our allies and additional resources. In estimating the price tag for these conventional improvements...
...discover what he believes in or uncover "that vision thing" they say he's searching for. Mike Dukakis knows what's wrong with America, and how to fix it. Better yet, he has found a number of points of weakness on the Republican side, and at each point of attack, he has a solution of his own to offer. As James Reston has put it, Mike Dukakis' answer to the taunt, "Where's George?" is, "Right behind the eight ball...
Richards continued the attack by trying to show that Bush isn't a real Texan. Bush's voting residence is a room at the Houstonian, a hotel in Houston. This even prompted the head of the Texas delegation to call Bush a tourist...
...Democrats Southern attack didn't stop with Richards and Bentsen. Some prominent names included Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. The Texas entourage included House Speaker Jim Wright, Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Congressman Mickey Leland. Leland and the highly respected Jordan seconded Bentsen's selection as vice president. Even the ending of the convention had a Texan taste to it. Singer Jennifer Holliday closed out the convention with the old rendition of "America the Beautiful." And where is she from? You guessed it. She's from Texas...