Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a soap-opera accompaniment to news of the Iran-contra scandal. As the sniping between First Lady Nancy Reagan and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan escalated, it only added to the image of a presidency adrift. "What is happening at the White House?" asked New Mexico Democrat William Richardson on the House floor last week. "Who is in charge? A constituent of mine asked, 'How can the President deal with the Soviets if he cannot settle a dispute between his wife and the chief of staff...
...credibility," said Kenneth Duberstein, a prominent lobbyist and Reagan's former legislative liaison. As congressional hearings on the Iran-contra affair get under way this spring, the Administration might also benefit from the respect Baker commands among his former colleagues on Capitol Hill. Said Senator Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat: "We know he's fair, we know he's honest, and we know he's decent." Robert Dole, who succeeded Baker as Senate G.O.P. leader in 1985, called his friend "the right man at the right time at this critical period for the White House...
Flanked by bunting, two marching bands, a full choir, 2,800 flag-waving supporters, his mother, his photogenic wife Jane, his three children and many of the local and national politicians who have endorsed him, Gephardt became the first Democrat to declare his candidacy for the 1988 presidential race. Invoking the legacy of Harry Truman, the Show Me State's last occupant of the Oval Office, Gephardt said last week, "I'm not doing this because I want an office but because I want to change this country. I want this country to be great again...
Gephardt's status as the only announced Democrat will not last long. Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt has formed a campaign committee. Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers is nearing a decision. Last week Illinois Senator Paul Simon declared his support for Bumpers and said he would not run. Better-known Democrats -- Colorado's Gary Hart, Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Jesse Jackson -- are also looming as candidates but are not expected to make their declarations until later this year...
...early life and catalogues Reagan's historical revisions and inventions. Reagan would have it, for instance, that his family struggled through the Depression on its own. Yet Reagan and his brother were both able to attend college during the early 1930's. How so? Reagan's father, a loyal Democrat, used party connections to secure an important job with a New Deal public works agency. The New Deal, it turns out, "bailed the Reagans...