Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential reputations are always fluid. Dwight Eisenhower, for example, was regarded during the '60s as a somewhat vague golfer with a tendency to blunder into sand traps when attempting a complicated English sentence. Now he is enjoying a rehabilitation. His watch was essentially peaceful and prudent, his revisionists...
...center would be the most intelligent policy option from this country's perspective. And it would just happen to be the most moral course we can adopt as well. So morality and foreign policy can coexist--if not always, at least sometimes. But as evidenced by Reagan's latest blunder, the policymakers in Washington don't see the light. Instead, they are leading us down a familiar path, one already followed in El Salvador and Nicaragua...
Watt's latest blunder may cost...
...furor grew, Watt, as usual, was hoping it would all blow over. "He's been hurt by this," said an aide, "but not mortally-at least for now." As Watt likes to put it: "When my liabilities outweigh my strengths, I should go." After his latest blunder, the scales may have tipped. - By George Russell. Reported by Jay Branegan and Caroline Mooney/ Washington
...should have been trying to seize Antwerp. That would have opened up the European port nearest Germany's heartland and, he asserts, ended the war months sooner. Even worse, as the Wehrmacht collapsed, Eisenhower turned his armies toward the Alps instead of racing the Soviets to Berlin, a blunder that left a lasting imprint on the map of Europe...