Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First with the familiar cocked-head grin, then with the impatient venting of breath that shows he is really irritated, Ronald Reagan got back at the press. "I came in to point out to you accurately where the disarray lies," he said: not in the White House but in the press corps. It was not one of his better one-liners. Far from being in "disarray," the press was in considerable agreement about indecision and disarray in the Administration...
...President insists, the Administration is not in disarray...
...arms control that he called a sudden press conference specifically to deny that this was so. After terming arms control the "most important undertaking of our generation," he added: "Our allies should not be . . . concerned about whether we're lacking in determination or whether we are, indeed, in disarray...
...dustup over weapons policy came just as Reagan was trying to dispel a similar impression of disarray on important domestic issues. He spent much of the week grappling with ways to reduce the deficit-swollen federal budget and nudging a blue-ribbon commission toward a compromise on the politically explosive question of restoring the solvency of the Social Security system (see following stories). The air of uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan...
...back away from some of his most cherished beliefs about military spending and taxes. He denied stoutly that he was doing any such thing and, in fact, seemed to be largely unaware of the economic and political stakes. Nettled by charges in the press that his Administration was "in disarray" and losing its direction, Reagan charged at his Friday meeting with newsmen that the disarray was in the minds of reporters who were printing tentative budget proposals as hard-and-fast decisions. He added, "I do not believe that, philosophically, I have changed...