Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior presidential aide, in an unwitting reminder of the Nixon White House's deceitful "Operation Candor," launched as a desperate Watergate defense. But if the Republicans really want to "raise memories of things gone by," Powell warned, "it would be worthwhile to compare this to Watergate in detail. The President
...will inflate the importance of some overseas event in an attempt to rally the country around him. Beyond this, Reagan will have to convince Americans that he would be a better President than Carter, that he really could achieve more. Reagan will have to go into more detail on his positions and, under close scrutiny, will have to explain just how he would carry them out. Even Gerald Ford, at breakfast with the editors of TIME, said: "I think that we ought to assume that his chances are less than fifty-fifty...
Reagan's strategists believe the turning point of the campaign could be the three debates planned by the League of Women Voters during the weeks of Sept. 7, Sept. 21 and Oct. 26. Despite Carter's more agile mind and mastery of detail, Reagan's aides expect him to do well in the debates; they believe Reagan would have lost the New Hampshire primary without a debate. Observed Brock: "Reagan has this remarkable ability to project decency, a sense of knowing where he is and where he is going. People relate to him. It's a talent that few people...
...tempered and somber attitude. Though he still laughs easily with the press, his comments to reporters these days often have a hint of asperity. At last week's joint press conference with Reagan, Bush told a questioner: "I'm not going to get nickel-and-dimed to death with detail" about his differences with the presidential nominee...
...rooms as elegantly as a downhill racer with murder on his mind. His actors of ten move at an otherworldly pace that recalls the stylized slowness of silent movies-especially in a wordless sequence that lasts almost half an hour. He builds suspense through the use of the unsuspected detail: a hand picking up a glove, a gleaming doorknob, an empty pair of shoes...