Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pipes said that the Soviet Union is moving toward a harder line vis-a-vis the U.S. "The carrot and the stick has been knocked out of the hands of the U.S., leading to a more brazen Russian expansion throughout the world," he added.
Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend...
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, made another telling point: "There are so many different types of unemployment that they require very different remedies." Other witnesses advanced special ideas. Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., commented that tax incentives to industry would go...
Huntington added that the expansion of the federal bureaucracy in the '60s had produced political figures who appealed to an "non-hierarchal American ethos." He cited presidential contender Jimmy Carter and Gov. Edmund Brown (D-Cal.) as prime examples.
In fact, in the past 40 years every sitting President who has run for re-election has won. These 40 years are the only proper ones for making presidential comparisons because they encompass the modern presidency-that cataclysmic expansion of federal services and presidential powers that began with Franklin Roosevelt...