Word: grins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, after Ford finally said no to the vice presidential nomination, Reagan immediately settled on Bush and the two began presenting an image of good fellowship. At a joint press conference, a reporter asked how they got along personally. Replied Reagan, with a broad grin: "We've been together for a couple of hours this morning, and I didn't get much sleep last night, and there has not been a cross word between us." Another reporter asked if it bothered Bush that "you are the No. 2 choice for the No. 2 spot?" Replied Bush: "What difference does...
...poll of American historians and political scientists placed him rather degradingly in the spot between Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur: a mediocre and listless ex-soldier summoned from the links. Ike's sarcastic contemporaries liked to joke about "the bland leading the bland," about his goofy grin and the stack of Zane Grey westerns on his night table. He was forever playing golf or fishing, or otherwise treating the White House, they said, as a pleasant retirement home. And there was Ike's language, those famously incoherent press conference sentences that used to move across an idea...
...Eisenhower and Reagan-in temperament, education, experience, talent, knowledge and techniques of leadership-have much to do with each other? Some of their characteristics are similar-the winning American grin, the air of decent good guy. In both, the voter senses a remarkably steady emotional grip, a self-confidence; both inspire loyalty. In neither have Americans detected those dark glints of paranoia and compulsion that eventually repelled them in some Presidents after...
...stood up on the specially-constructed wooden tables as the convention hall shook with paroxysms of Republican passion, watching the masses dancing and the two nominees waving. While none of the journalists cheered--they are, after all, paid to be objective or at least, discerning--several were seen to grin, infected by the spirit...
...future dims. Amid the anti-Carter rhetoric that can carry the November election, there must be some strands of reason, some sign that conservatives are not uncompromising. This week in Detroit, there have been no such indications. Maybe that's why conservatives sport smiles wide than Carter's 1976 grin. The roots of the slogan, "Together--A New Beginning," are found not in optimism, however, but in intolerance--a profound cynicism about anything classified as non-conservative...