Word: copes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...period of unabashed good spirits and confidence after an era of gloom and self-doubt. "Reagan has significantly changed our attitude toward Government, away from looking toward Washington to solve our problems," says Field. A new form of Reaganism, possibly even under Democratic auspices, will have to cope with that legacy after Reagan is gone. Few Americans want to return to the Great Society style of welfare. The nation can no longer afford that kind of grand buffet, if it ever could. So the instinct for a new compassion, a word that is often heard these days as a signal...
...Reagan Administration is not the only government struggling to cope with the problem of clandestine and illegal weapons sales to Iran. From Portugal, France and Sweden have come revelations that several Western countries are heavily embroiled in a variety of such illicit dealings. In almost every case, the motivations behind the traffic have been commercial rather than political, and its discovery abroad has led to considerably less domestic tumult than in Washington. Quipped one U.S. official: "The real question is, Who isn't selling arms to Iran...
...manager and will need strong assistants to run the White House staff. Whether he can find them is questionable; he quit the 1980 campaign early partly because he could not put together a powerful team. On the other hand, he is well qualified to advise Reagan on how to cope with congressional investigations into a White House scandal. As a member of the Senate Watergate committee in 1973, Baker coined the question about Richard Nixon that came to dominate that probe: "What did the President know and when did he know...
...natural aging, impaired health, the crushing reverses in politics and state affairs, or all of the above will probably never be sorted out. Nor is it all that important. But what is important is his energy level in mind, body and soul in these next few weeks. Can he cope with the job? This is a twilight time...
Wills, a Classics scholar and communitarian, saw Nixon's 1968 election as a sign that Americans--though shaken by events of the late '60s and the system's failure to cope with them--were not yet ready to admit that rugged individualism, which defined their politics and judgments of themselves, was a "cruel hoax". Wills writes...