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...ELECTION of Ronald Reagan in 1980 signalled a full-scale attack on the needs and benefits of groups with limited political clout. The poor saw life saving social programs they had won in the past 50 years gradually stripped away their ethics and diligence impugned even their hunger termed illusory Minorities, women and gays witnessed growing discrimination in the workplace and in the government. The disabled were stripped of many of the rehabilitation programs the government had sponsored...
...compaign, inch by inch, day by day, trying to find the decisive moment. Was it Super Tuesday, March 13, when Mondale swept most of the primaries and caucuses? Was it Feb. 28 in New Hampshire or Feb. 20 in Iowa, when Mondale gave his first public displays of clout? Hold on, the researchers say, look back further. In January 1983, Iowa's popular Democratic Congressman, Tom Harkin, endorsed Mondale, sending a strong signal to the party faithful. But wait. The logbook shows that Mondale journeyed to Iowa in February 1982 in tow of Congressman Neal Smith, the two doing...
Shultz was supposed to be everything his volatile predecessor, Alexander Haig, had not been: calm, collegial, steady. Unlike Haig, he would avoid squandering his clout on bureaucratic spats. A former business-school professor, Treasury Secretary and president of an international corporation, Shultz came to the job with a thorough knowledge of world economics and a feel for Middle East affairs...
...Democrats by briefing the Republican candidate on the city's problems. The mayor then called a press conference, at which Reagan promised New York federal loan guarantees. The effect was to make the candidate look like a winner and his host a man of prescience and pre-emptive clout...
...problems were caused not only be entrenched interests which stood to lose in the new programs, but also by the lack of political clout wielded by the poor whom the programs intended to aid. Matusow describes one program, designed by a maverick friend of Robert F. Kennedy '48, David Hackett, which emphasized community control of development and political action. It was the one program in the Great Society that could be deemed radical: "Other Great Society programs sought reform by appeasing institutions; community action would seek to reform institutions by empowering the poor...