Word: electable
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...Independent Candidate John Anderson did not elect Ronald Reagan by significantly weakening Carter; indeed he had no effect on the election outcome as a whole...
...country. The Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years and made substantial gains in the House, creating more conservative chambers for the Reagan Administration and knocking out of office some key Democratic stalwarts. The voters who cast their ballots for a President-elect who has pledged to reverse the tone and direction that have prevailed in Washington for almost half a century also retired such noted liberal Democratic Senators as Birch Bayh in Indiana, George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho and John Culver in Iowa. Even Washington's Warren Magnuson...
...President-elect talks about how he will set the U.S. on a new course...
While reiterating Reagan's stated positions, his aides were unclear this week as to what specific actions the President-elect would take after taking office on January 20. Reagan's "number-one priority" will be his goal of a million-man reserve, defense adviser Charles Kupperman said, though he added, "I know he wants to give the all-volunteer force a chance to succeed." Pipes called an executive order to terminate registration "logical but not terribly practicable" and "a very wrong signal to the Russians...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History, will soon be named to President-elect Ronald Reagan's State Department transition committee, sources close to the transition office said yesterday...