Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roger Morris' Richard Milhous Nixon, to be published later this month, tracks the future President from distant ancestry through the 1952 election. A Harvard-trained political scientist who worked briefly in Nixon's White House, Morris has written critical books on two former colleagues, Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger. Now...
The biggest vote you make is not on Election Day but when you buy a car, as I just did. A new Mercedes? For the West German economy, 60,000 votes. A new Infiniti? For Japan, 40,000 votes. A new Chevy Beretta? For Detroit, 13,000.
Ford goes about doing good while doing well. He plays golf all over the world for fun and charity, reminds everybody he was an Eagle Scout and still lives by the code, practices old-fashioned partisan politics in election season and openly relishes the money from the boardroom.
Before Bush flew to Central America to join regional leaders in Costa Rica on Friday, new details emerged about covert U.S. plans aimed at overthrowing Noriega in July and October 1988. These plans, the Administration noted, were blocked by some of the same Senators who last month criticized Bush as...
Can it really be just ten months since Hungary took its first tentative step toward democracy by passing a law to permit the formation of independent political parties? Last week Hungary's largest opposition party named a candidate for November's presidential election -- and he stands a good chance of...