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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What he meant was, in part, that America's manhood was back. By his account, the Administration of Jimmy Carter and, he always added, of Walter Mondale, had stood for weakness and inefFectuality, for letting foreigners like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of manhood ran deeply through the campaign. The U.S. had lost the long war in Viet Nam; the nation seemed smaller and diminished in the world: unmanned. Reagan restored a sense of what was good, what was virtuous, about being a man. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that...
...Well, the President has more information than we do, and so can more readily make these decisions." The implicit line of some of the Reagan defenders was the reverse: that the President has a mind unencumbered by facts-the sort of details, they mean, that used to bog Jimmy Carter down. Reagan can stand on the bridge of the ship of state, point the general direction, and let the subalterns worry about the navigation. In the second debate, Reagan scored with calculatedly offhanded brilliance when he said he was "not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent...
Each election cycle gives more weight to the claim that we are retrospective voters without a cemented ideological basis. In 1974, we punished the Republicans for Watergate and stripped them of more than 40 House seats. In 1980, we rejected President Carter and the Democratic malaise to give the GOP 34 seats. Two years ago, in the midst of the worst recession since pre-World War 11 days, we doled out 26 seats to the President's opposition party. And this year, we rewarded the Republicans with a 14-seat gift for the economic recovery...
...brief interview after the speech, Carter said that newly elected Senator and current Gov. Jhon D. Rocketeller IV of West Virgina, Sen. Bill Bradley (D.N.J.), and Sen. Sam Nunn(D.Ga) would all be strong presidential contenders four years from...
...Carter found time during his 85 minute presentation to joke about the lack of respect he has received since returning to Plains, Ga With a nod to Rodney Dangerfield. Carter spoke of a Trivial Pursuit question recently posed to him: "Do you know who said. When I look at my children I wished I had remained a virgin" After brief applause, Carter said. "I he answer was my mother...