Word: electable
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...report on TIME'S Man of the Year, Barrett got very close indeed. He talked with Reagan at the President-elect's Pacific Palisades home in early December, then met with him again shortly before Christmas for the exclusive TIME interview that is part of this week's cover story. For Barrett, the profession of Reagan watching is far from finished; he will move to Washington in January to become TIME'S White House correspondent "Reagan is not an easy man to know," says Barrett. "But he is a great talker. His son Mike says that...
Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian was granted unprecedented access to Reagan's Rancho del Cielo near Goleta, Calif. Ajemian spent two days there and wrote the four-page story on the President-elect's hide away. Reagan had eagerly sketched a plan of the ranch in Ajemian's notebook during the 1976 campaign. Says Ajemian: "Finally seeing it, I understood why he had talked about it so much...
Every politician, of course, is shaped by the distinctive nature of a personal past, but few acknowledge the debt so readily as Ronald Reagan. TIME invited the President-elect to pinpoint the year that was most important in forming his views, and after some mulling, he settled on 1932. That was the year he turned 21 and went home to Dixon, III., a graduate of tiny Eureka College near Peoria. Then, after a summer of lifeguarding at Lowell Park near Dixon, he found, at radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, 60 miles away, a chance to get into sports announcing...
...asking for more in expectation of still higher inflation. Said Economist Eckstein: "The scientific evidence suggests that the only thing that improves inflation expectations is actual experience, and the experience in 1981 is just not going to be all that marvelous." Added Heller: "I hope and pray that President-elect Reagan can lower inflationary expectations, but the prospects do not look very good. The fact is that tax cuts go against the public's conception of an anti-inflation strategy...
Familiarity breeds nicknames, so it stands to reason that the more we get to know President-elect Ronald Reagan, the more likely we are to call him by any other name. But which one? Mr. Reagan calls Mrs. Reagan "Mommie," and she him "Ronnie." According to the New York Times, Mr. Reagan's tailor, Frank Mariani, also calls him Ronnie ("Ronnie is rather conservative"). Should we too call him Ronnie? Or should we call...