Word: defend
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...clear that the Reagan mandate can be as flexible a tool as the President desires it tn be--one that can be used to defend more liberal policies from rightwingers as easily as to justify heightened conservatism. The election was, above all, a personal triumph for Reagan, and it could conceivably free him from the shibboleths of the New Right loonies hovering near the White House. Perhaps President will draw upon his margin of victory to pursue some limit in the size of the Pentagon buildup, in conjunction with continued domestic cuts and tax simplification. Even more hopefully, Reagan could...
...bread-and-butter issues, Mondale did not stray much from the oldtime Democratic religion he had learned from Hubert Humphrey. He spoke a sweet and moving message about the values of America. In Cleveland, toward the end of the campaign, he explained his political vision: "We must strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort one another." Mondale paraphrased the words of John Winthrop as he led his flock of Pilgrims to New England...
...White House Aide Michael Deaver, a former public relations executive who has loyally guarded Reagan's image since 1966. He and White House Chief of Staff James Baker decided last spring to stress broad themes over specific issues, to play up feelings of patriotism and prosperity rather than defend the details of Reagan's policies. The execution was left to Tuesday Team Inc., the cadre of Madison Avenue superstars recruited for the re-election account. Few of them had done political commercials before; their experience lay in dreaming up singing felines for Meow Mix cat food and tingly...
MeanwHile, the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force, largest of the anti-Sandinista groups, reportedly declared a twelve-hour cease-fire for Nicaragua's Nov. 4 election. The move was described as a gesture of sympathy for Nicaraguan voters. "Our highest concern is to defend the civilian population," said Frank Arana, an F.D.N. spokesman. "We know that out of terror, many will be required to cast ballots in the electoral farce...
Americans liked to defend their forthright manners in those heady early years by insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving...