Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a few laughs under his belt, Reagan launches his attack on Big Government. A favorite line is one he used in the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964: "A Government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life that we'll ever see on this earth." If all the paper churned out by the federal bureaucracy in a year were collected in one pile, he adds, it would be 4,500 feet long, 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep. Asks Reagan: "Wouldn't it make a great annual bonfire...
...Dwight Eisenhower who first exposed his vital organs to public scrutiny. James Hagerty, Ike's press secretary, believes that if all those bits about pulse and blood pressure had not been put out when Ike had his heart attack in 1955, he might have lost the 1956 election. The nation was broadly educated for the first time about heart disease and concluded that 1) Ike had been honest with the people and 2) was able to continue in office once he recovered. However, when Ike was out with that heart attack, then ileitis, his Administration pretty much marked time...
...interview," Patty also was quoted by the Harrises as saying she had heard that the FBI wanted to kill her and blame the crime on the S.L.A. Then, with outraged public opinion on its side, the FBI presumably could have mounted a ruthless attack on all revolutionary groups...
Cornell legged it to a 16-2 lead with 13:53 in the half, while the Crimson was wading up and down the floor mired in an offensive attack that committed 24 turnovers on the night...
...record from the Georgia State Department of Archives and History. Some of the assertions are true, most notably the one about McGovern. Many of the other charges are open to serious question. As for the specific charge that Carter used certain television commercials during the 1970 Georgia campaign to attack his opponent's financial integrity. Carter insists that no such commercials exist. And though the article contains direct quotes from a "veteran archivist," Carroll Hart, director of the state archives department, said that the archives staff failed "to recognize their words or statements in [the Harper's] article...