Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of Government Roger Porter, a Reagan White House appointee, may be asked back to Washington in the advent of a GOP triumph. This semester, Porter is teaching a popular course on the presidency that may presage his return to the capital...
...GOP nominee, elated by an eight-point lead over Dukakis in public opinion polls, relaxed at his Washington home this weekend before leaving tomorrow for appearances in New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, California and Ohio...
Pierre DuPont, who sought the GOP presidential nomination before bowing out this spring, said that people with opposing views can still fit in the GOP. "There's room in this party for everyone," he says...
...Reagan coalition included Republicans and conservative Democrats, white ethnic voters, Hispanics--especially Cubans--and evangelicals. But for the most part, Blacks did not participate in the Reagan Revolution. Only 3 percent of delegates to the 1984 GOP Convention were Black, and only 4 percent of delegates here in New Orleans are Black. Reagan's civil right stance was sharply criticized by Black organizations like the NAACP and the National Urban League...
...Americans. Bush has spoken to the NAACP, and sent Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) to the Urban League's annual conference. He invited Coretta Scott King to the convention, and she sat with the vice president's wife. Benjamin Hooks, the NAACP's executive director, spoke from the GOP podium--in prime time--and Black Republicans from Maryland Senate candidate Alan Keyes '72 to former Transportation Secretary William Coleman were presented to the nation...