Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy is twofold: first, play up the depressed Texas economy and have good old Lloyd persuade Texans that the Massachusetts Governor is no pointy- headed, dovish liberal but a man they can do business with. The idea is that it's not who loves America more but who will run America better. Second, debunkport Bush as a Texan and show him for the gee-whiz New England prepster that he really...
...main opposition party, Labor, is not fundamentally different. Labor's slogan in the 1984 election read: "NO: no return to the '67 borders, no removal of settlements, no negotiations with the PLO, no Palestinian state..." In March of this year, Labor leader Shimon Peres--commonly represented as the most "dovish" of Israeli leaders--unequivocally stated his absolute refusal to negotiate with the PLO: "I object completely to any dealings with...
During the three days last week designed to counter Dukakis' dovish image, the candidate talked about using economic pressure to force the Soviets' hand on human rights. In Chicago and Washington he professed support for the Stealth bomber and the Trident II missile. And he peppered his speeches with the sound bite-size generalities that TV news adores: "We're going to put our defense dollars where our defense needs are greatest...
Although Dukakis has not reversed outright any of the dovish positions he took in the primaries, his emphasis is different these days. He seems intent on preventing George Bush from portraying him as the purveyor of a McGooey isolationism -- as the Vice President eagerly hopes to do. So instead of stressing, as he did in Iowa, his belief that the U.S. already has far more nuclear weapons than it needs, the new Dukakis emphasizes his support for the doctrine of deterrence. He even praises Ronald Reagan for his emphasis on human rights while in Moscow...
...stark and too shockingly recurrent to be explained away. The good men of Camelot have deliberately altered the public record of the Crisis to create an image of President Kennedy as a cool, tough leader who saved the Free World from the encroachments of communism--instead of a dovish Kennedy who sought the easiest way to resolve the Crisis...