Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cannon, the author of a recent biography of President Reagan, told a Kennedy School, of Government audience last night that in order to understand Reagan's attitudes toward tax cuts and other policies, he needed to learn more about his boyhood, not his political career...
...Cannon, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post, said that in the President's formative years most people saw America as a "secure and perfect" country. "For Reagan the glass was always half-full," said Cannon before about 50 spectators...
...Americans assumed prosperity would last forever in those days. Cannon said...
Reagan's own life supported his optimism Cannon noted. At the height of the Depression he landed a $100 a week job in 1937 when it was the dream of every American to get any job in Hollywood Reagan casually auditioned and received a role...
...Massachusetts. Political realities eventually shrank the list to five, but NCPAC still raised $10 million and spent $4.5 million in the 1982 elections. Yet last week, for all its thunder, the New Right could claim partial credit only for the defeat of a single, vulnerable incumbent, Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada...