Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named the new White House press secretary, after a lengthy search turned up no one better or more willing to tackle the job, his briefings will no doubt be known for meat as well as spice. Although not a longtime Reagan insider, he worked closely enough with the President-elect during the campaign to be assured of the access crucial for a spokesman. "The nature of Reagan is that he's an extremely open and accessible person." says Brady...
...reported, and vehemently denied by Reagan, that Wife Nancy wanted a press secretary who was "reasonably good-looking." Said the President-elect...
Every action, gesture and word by a President-elect and his staff becomes symbolic of something larger expected later. Every contact, every appointee is a declaration of policy that may rock the world. Nothing is too trivial, remote or obscure. Already the quivering hordes of analysts have perceived the Rea gan global strategist (Alexander Haig), most powerful legislative ally (Paul Laxalt), shadow behind the power (Richard Nixon), new fashion color (brown...
...there is very little to analyze. What may be worse, the Reagans will not heed the studies, charts and diagrams of how to conduct a transition. Reagan has just met for the first time some of the people he named to his Cabinet. Those who believe that a President-elect should eat, talk and pray with his Cabinet nominees were stunned...
...Staff Jim Baker went cheerfully about the business of planning his office, confident that the personal relationships of the staff would in the end confound the chartmakers. Reagan was back on his ranch chopping more wood, which further flummoxed journalists who were in California to write about the President-elect preparing to shoulder the burdens of the world. They wrote interminably of the fact that there was nothing to write about...