Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush cares deeply about a handful of core values -- family, loyalty, service to country -- but regards almost everything else as negotiable...
...When persuasive leadership is required, Bush instinctively reaches not for a TV camera but for a telephone, working his will among fellow heads of state and Washington insiders rather than through Reagan-like appeals to public opinion...
...Guided by an inner clock that sometimes frustrates his aides, Bush decides at his own speed and rarely looks back in doubt later...
After seven months as President, Bush has emerged as a much more complex Commander in Chief than expected, a hybrid of presidential personalities served and observed. Bush possesses Lyndon Johnson's penchant for secrecy, without retributive sense of justice. He has Richard Nixon's feel for foreign policy, but so far lacks his mentor's grip on grand strategy. He shares Jimmy Carter's fascination with the fine details of government, but understands better which pieces are most important. Bush says he learned from Reagan the importance of stubborn principle in politics, but he sees more clearly than Reagan...
...Bush's cautious, calibrated style has made for largely surefooted policy. Despite a sluggish first four months, the President has launched initiatives on difficult issues -- savings and loans, clean air, arms control -- that he might have ducked. He has kept a Democratic Congress off balance and has mollified the conservative wing of his own party. If he has hit no grand slams, neither has he committed any egregious errors. "I'm reasonably pleased where, at the end of six months, things are," Bush told TIME. "I'm not relaxed about it. I'm not in an everything's fine mode...