Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle over integrated housing engulfs Yonkers, N. Y. -- Reagan plays political hatchet man. -- Worries about the weather...
Another group eager to rain on Dukakis' parade is the Republican party. While Vice President George Bush is fishing somewhere in Wyoming, a GOP "truth squad" has been dispatched to Atlanta. Headed by the Republican's foremost hatchet-man, Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, the squad is eager to dampen the spirits of its Democratic rivals...
Designated hatchet. His disdain for Dukakis is deep enough to make Ronald Reagan this campaign's perfect hatchet man. The President "is eager to do it," says a Bush aide. Last week he upped Bush's anti-Duke epithet "Brookline liberal" to "true liberal...
...Times, Bad Times (Doubleday, $19.95) was written by a key insider from this period: Ed Joyce, who served as Sauter's top deputy, succeeded him as news division president in 1983, and was ousted two years later. Joyce was an unpopular figure, viewed by his staff as an aloof hatchet man who set in motion a painful round of layoffs in 1985. Unsurprisingly, he views himself more sympathetically, as a beleaguered defender of traditional news values. His chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind...
...predicting Bob Dole will kiss and make up with Bush to be picked as vice president. With his temperament, he will be picked Sectretary of Defense, but not vice president. Besides, Dole has too many principles to bury his hatchet with Bush the way Bush did with Reagan--unless he aims it at George's back...