Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then on to Iowa, where he hopes to find the crowds warmed up by -- who else? -- his father. Albert Sr. has been vigorously campaigning there as a surrogate for his son. By this week he will have hit all 99 counties in the state, giving his hillbilly speeches to elect his boy to the White House...
Regional representatives of the new government will elect a president, the communique said...
...Gore] is the only Democrat who won't panderto leftist interest groups," Miller said. "TheAmerican people will not elect a McGovernite...
...died last May and asked him whether he had known all along about the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the contras. "Casey nodded a frail yes." When asked why, Casey said, "I believed." Woodward says the CIA at one time used the late Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as informants. The CIA's reaction: "No comment...
...President who baffled him most was Reagan. It began with their first official meeting, a courtesy call on the Speaker by the President-elect. When Reagan commented on O'Neill's huge oak desk, the Speaker said it had once belonged to Grover Cleveland. Replied Reagan: "You know, I once played Grover Cleveland in the movies." O'Neill had to correct him: "No, Mr. President. You're thinking of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the ball player." Reagan's tendency to see every problem in the most limited personal terms infuriated O'Neill. In arguing against some Social Security cuts, O'Neill...