Word: baits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page State of the Union message touting his Administration's accomplishments in somewhat questionable language. Among other things, he claimed as a major achievement that "the decline in defense spending has been reversed"-totally ignoring his 1976 campaign pledge to cut it further. Republicans quickly rose to the bait. John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said the document made "claims which border on the perfidious...