Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRESIDENT Reagan, criticizing the Dukakis campaign for hiding its true colors, said it best a few days after the Democratic National Convention: "You'll never hear that 'L' word--liberal--from them...
This newest move doesn't surprise me. It is merely a demonstration of the hypocrisy that we hear every time the Administration says anything at all about South Africa...
...these debates, reporters inevitably swarm around the spokesmen for both campaigns to hear them say what they're paid to say--that their man won. The need for reporters and camera crews to convey the obviously highly partisan opinions of these campaign strategists to millions of Americans is dubious...
...talk informally with anyone, anytime. "We keep in touch," says National Security Adviser Colin Powell; he will not say with whom. Second, Washington will officially negotiate only with an "authoritative" representative of the Tehran government, and that stage has not yet been reached. Says one State Department official: "We hear from people who say they know somebody who knows somebody in the Iranian government who can help with the hostages. Well, we've been burned on that one before, so we're not interested." Third, if negotiations do begin, the U.S. will refuse to make any concessions to win release...
...agenda. In politics, as in war, whichever side chooses the battlefield is likely to win. Baker and his cadre were designating the battlefield every day. In addition, none of the top Dukakis command, with the occasional exception of Brountas, could tell the candidate things he did not want to hear or make him do what he did not want to do. By early September, even Dukakis realized this was a liability...