Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exam, and had labor induced early so she could take the test. The young couple hung out a law shingle together above the family newspaper office in Huntington, but Marilyn ran the practice. A Huntington friend, Sandy Cook, says Marilyn was the first "superwoman" in her set, expertly balancing career and family, even baking bread...
...Some of your devotion to public service comes from your father's career as city manager of Teaneck, N.J. What ideas did he pass...
...certainly changed. It's a matter of psychology and prestige. A feeling that civil servants get hammered by the political process, beginning with the last couple of Presidents. And after a while, you have enough people swearing at you, and you don't think it's a very promising career. Salaries are of some importance, ((but)) when you're talking about the federal civil service, this process of layering the career people with more and more political people has probably reached the point where it is quite important in discouraging somebody who someday wants to have a really responsible...
...Defeating inflation is generally regarded as the crown of your public career. How did you feel taking over the Fed in 1979, facing terrible economic problems...
Reagan could never master the arcana of nuclear weaponry or arms control. Even the finer points of economics, one of his majors in college, eluded him. But he understood Middle American folklore and myth very well. After growing up in small-town simplicity and pursuing his first career in Hollywood, Reagan needed no tutoring in symbolism. By 1980 a frustrated, confused America had lost all patience with stagflation at home, impudent adversaries abroad and ambiguity from its leadership. The moment was perfect for a leader who dealt in stark simplicities. When he declared that "government is not the solution...