Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Day One, President-elect Bush will find a newly rejuvenated Democratic Congressional leadership implacably opposed to his policies...
...offer some advice for President-elect Bush: "Eat right, stay fit, get plenty of exercise, avoid stress, watch out for radon, stray bullets...
...hundred years ago, when the U.S. was about to elect its first president, the fledgling nation seriously considered enthroning a king--their choice for the crown was George Washington. The general refused the offer, but he did admit that "the utility;--nay necessity" of such a powerful figurehead might one day arrive...
...payroll? He was elected. I can't prevent that. ((Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak)) Shamir, who was wanted by Interpol, was later elected and is the Prime Minister. This is democracy. I did not elect Abul Abbas. It was the Palestine National Council ((P.N.C.)) that elected him. And a part of the reason is this, that it was a matter of indignity, national indignity; when Reagan breached the agreement with President Mubarak and they hijacked the plane and tried to put him in jail, that caused a reaction of sympathy...
Come the morning light with victory, the President-elect, whoever he may be, will have to shed his warted and rancid campaign in a hurry if he wants success in the Oval Office. He will have to be human again...