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WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch more than any other American politician has openly advocated tougher penalties for violent crime. On this issue, Democrat Koch falls for the unconvincing Neo-Con attacks on the criminal justice system...
...called mainly for new studies. Saying that welfare created a "spider's web of dependency," Reagan directed that his domestic-policy council, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese, evaluate all federal welfare programs, with an eye toward restructuring the system. "The success of welfare," the President said, "should be judged by how many of its recipients become independent of welfare...
...dominant. "The country is in an antiliberal mood," said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus. "Ronald Reagan has ridden this trend." The rightward tilt of young voters, who chose Reagan over Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984 by 60% to 40%, provided further cause for optimism. Said Attorney General Edwin Meese: "The excitement on the campuses is all from the conservative movement...
Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe...
...those men. A clinician, Murray treated disorders like those which often make good movie subjects. In the early 1940s, however, the Harvard establishment didn't think those disorders were a good subject for psychology. Murray's colleagues were suspicious of developments beyond their laboratory. In his memoirs Professor Edwin G. Boring, who chaired the department during those years, calls "rescuing psychology from these philosophers," his "mission...