Word: commandingly
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...years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success - charm, acting, oratory - have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980 - and it turned out that he meant them - and he wrote most of them...
Citing his promise to the Judiciary Committee that Cox would keep his job unless he was guilty of “extraordinary improprieties,” Richardson resigned. William D. Ruckelshaus, the deputy attorney general, also resigned rather than follow Nixon’s command...
...lead-up to the Iraq War and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." RET. GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI, former head of U.S. Central Command, in his new book, Battle Ready...
...officials had volcanic fights about how to handle Joseph Stalin, whether to turn postwar Germany into an agricultural backwater, and whether to put the atom bomb under international control. And things weren't always warm and fuzzy during the cold war either. In 1966 de Gaulle quit the NATO command and kicked out U.S. Troops. It took five years of messy improvisation to get the basic structures of containment in place and four decades before they bore fruit. So if al-Qaeda seems to be gaining and Iraq is on the edge of a quagmire, it doesn't mean...
...security control. In his speech Monday aimed at reassuring a domestic audience increasingly skeptical over his handling of Iraq, President Bush vowed both to transfer "full sovereignty" to an Iraqi provisional government on June 30, and to maintain 138,000 U.S. troops (or, possibly, more) in Iraq "under American command." U.S. officials have also insisted, up to now, that American officers will have command responsibility for the Iraqi security forces. But sovereignty is like pregnancy - you either are or you aren't, because sovereignty means nothing less than final decision-making authority over all matters of state and the maintenance...