Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, Greenspan--who controls the nation's money supply--is one of many Washington insiders who support Bush's economic goals, but express doubt about the president's ability to deliver on his campaign promises...
Largely because of these concerns, the Bush team has pegged deficit reduction as its numberone economic priority from the first days of the presidential campaign. New administration appointees like Associate Professor of Economics Lawrence B. Lindsey say a so-called "flexible freeze" can balance the budget in five to six years...
...problem for Bush, observers say, is that the promises he made in the campaign mean tough cuts for other programs. Already, he has pledged not to touch Social Security, and has suggested he would not cut Medicare. Moreover, while Bush has said he would trim the defense budget, he has said he would limit it only to the level of inflation...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff called the labor troubles in Memphis a distraction and advised against his going there. They argued that King had a mass of details to work out for the Poor People's Campaign, a nationwide series of marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King...
...were in prison . . . that I tried to love and serve humanity." On April 8 in Memphis, 42,000 people walked silently in the march Martin Luther King Jr. had planned. By the end of the month, Ralph Abernathy, his friend and successor, kicked off the Poor People's Campaign. In May, the campaign arrived in Washington. There, two months after King's death, a makeshift village arose. It was called Resurrection City U.S.A...