Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that the first half of 1985 will be their best opportunity to win support for new legislative programs. By the end of next year, they figure, many lawmakers will be less susceptible to White House pressures, since by then Reagan will be regarded by some as a lame duck. "There'll be no extended honeymoon this time," says David Gergen, former White House communications director. "It's essential that he reach out to the Democrats quickly...
...always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking...
...ended a long ideological split within your party, and your political success since then has kept that down. But at the Dallas convention we began to see the feud revive. Is it going to be possible to keep the party together philosophically? Or as you get into a lame-duck situation, will we see the feud revive...
Mondale's tart reply, addressed directly to Reagan, was: "Your definition of national strength is to throw money at the Defense Department. My definition ... is to make certain that a dollar spent buys a dollar's worth of defense." While repeating his oppositon to the MX missile ("a sitting duck") and the B-l bomber (flying it, he said, would be "a suicide mission"), Mondale rattled off a long list of weapons systems he did favor. Money saved on the MX and Bl, he contended, could be spent for other military purposes, like strengthening conventional forces in Europe. Said Mondale...
Reagan was willing to take on Mondale because debates have become a campaign fixture and are risky to duck, and because he believed he could do well...