Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absolute splendor of an Inauguration eclipsed, if that is possible, by the tension and thrill of the hostage release." Like a general fighting a war on two fronts, Ajemian had to move quickly to deploy correspondents where they were most needed. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett stayed with President-elect Reagan while Correspondent Neil MacNeil headed up a team assigned to cover the Inaugural speech and ceremony. When word came that the hostages were finally free, News Editor Dean Fischer coordinated long-standing plans to gather information on the hostages and their families. Reporter Susan Schindehette was with the family...
...made a fortune in the electronics businesses of Northern California's "Silicon Valley." In his mid-40s, possessing a proven record of management, he seemed the very model of a Reagan top appointee. As he sat in the drab Washington office of E. Pendleton James, the President-elect's personnel director, visions of the sub-Cabinet danced in his head...
Complaints about the cost of the Inaugural, the formal wear, Reagan's refusal to be drawn into policy discussions, all seemed to slide off the President elect. Nancy did not even travel to the capital on the third visit, and Reagan arrived with his same familiar speeches - and his same enduring good-guyness...
Reagan then did some prodding of his own by indicating that he might attempt a different, unspecified tack if the crisis was not resolved by the time he takes office on Jan. 20. Though he said he would probably support a Carter-negotiated settlement, the President-elect would not commit himself absolutely. Said Reagan...
...economic strategy Reagan will need, warned the Senate Banking Committee that he intends to keep the nation's money supply growing slowly as an anti-inflationary measure, even if that policy prevents interest rates from coming down to a more tolerable level. Donald T. Regan, the President-elect's choice for Secretary of the Treasury, asserted at his confirmation hearings that "interest rates, inflation rates and unemployment rates are all expected to remain at high levels throughout...