Word: franco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dinner table, Pop preached an anticommunism that was as fervent as his Catholicism. He was an intimidating, authoritarian figure who revered Senator Joseph McCarthy and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The elder Buchanan proudly reminded his brood that they were the descendants of Mississippi Confederates who fought to save Old Dixie. Not for the Buchanans the Leave It to Beaver homilies of backyard-barbecue morality. Pop fostered a sense of clannishness, of us-against-them resentment that made his children ever vigilant. Pat attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws...
...once fled from the forces of the "old Germany," Hoffmann said receiving the red-and-gold cross symbolized a restored Franco-German cooperation...
...course, some people might be wary of voting for someone who is so obviously homophobic, anti-Semitic and possibly racist, but I think those concerns are highly overrated. After all, Buchanan has admitted that while growing up his family's heroes were Francisco Franco, Joseph McCarthy and Douglas McArthur, and no one who admires such great men could possibly be dangerous. The fact that Buchanan's campaign co-chair was forced to resign after being linked to white supremacist groups was obviously a result of the machinations of the liberal media...
...hostile to U.S. domination, nonetheless proved a staunch ally at critical moments--like the 1991 Gulf War, to which he committed French combat troops. Determined to secure France's position in the post-cold war era, Mitterrand threw his full weight behind the cause of European integration, with the Franco-German axis as its motor. Mitterrand also launched some $6 billion worth of landmarks, firmly placing his imprint on the Paris skyline. His imprint too was in lawbooks for abolishing the death penalty. The disastrous defeat of the Socialists in 1993 tarnished the closing moments his career--and his beginnings...
TIME: How would you describe the state of Franco-American relations today...