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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RONALD Reagan has been one of the most popular presidents in history. His general election victories over Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984 were both by very large margins. And during his eight years at the helm, President Reagan has associated with more crooks than Frank Sinatra...
Blacks made a mistake seven, and then three years ago by not voting during the 1980 and 1984 Presidential elections. There appeared, at the time, to be reasons. In 1980, Blacks did not vote for Jimmy Carter because he did not come through on his promises to Blacks. This was after voting for the peanut...
...raise your taxes, period." Dukakis, who boasts that he has balanced "nine budgets in a row," shot back by pointing to the Reagan record: "This Administration has raised taxes four times in six years ((and)) given us more red ink than all the Administrations from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined...
...hothouse atmosphere of Washington, not even the slightest flicker of self-promotion goes undetected. Richard Holbrooke, a well-regarded former Assistant Secretary of State under Carter, advised Gary Hart, then Gore, before making his expertise available to Dukakis. While Holbrooke denies any desire to leave Shearson Lehman Hutton, campaign aides found his friendliness after the New York primary unnerving. "Suddenly, every time you turned around, there was Holbrooke -- it was like a Peter Sellers movie," jokes one Dukakis supporter. Giddily he pursued his comic notion. "He'd be looking in from the door. Look again, and his head is poking...
...Publish an opinion piece in the New York Times or Washington Post. "All op-ed pieces are really resumes," says Washington Attorney David Rubenstein, who read his share while serving as a policy adviser to the 1976 Carter campaign. Stuart Eizenstat, Jimmy Carter's former domestic policy adviser, is an earnest, respected economics expert. Yet when his name recently appeared as co-author of a Washington Post piece entitled "Defense Lessons for Democrats," it was enough to rub nerves. Scoffed a former Carter Administration colleague: "Is that a job application, or what...