Word: heartlanders
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LIFE AND TIMES A Horatio Alger journey from the Midwestern heartland to the White House...
...sports, and I'm not sure they always come in that order," Reagan once said. His picture in the high school yearbook bore the caption "Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music." He was born on Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., in that Midwestern heartland that is thought to be the seedbed of national heroes. But nothing about his origins augured any remarkable success. His father Jack, who had never reached high school, was a shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home...
...believe in the presidency as well. After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon and overwhelmed Ford and Carter. Reagan restored the belief that an ordinary American raised in the heartland could lead the country and give it a sense of direction and purpose. At a time when the country had been captivated by youth culture for more than a decade, voters chose a President who was nearly 70 when he took office, a kind of living time capsule...
...actually am going to be involved, I want to be involved. I don’t like just sitting on boards,” Rudenstine explains. “I really want the things I do to be pretty much in the heartland of things that I know something about and I know that I’m committed...
...Sunni heartland in the middle of the country remains the biggest concern for U.S. commanders, not least because the escalating danger of working there has slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The Marines eased their stranglehold on the city three weeks ago, placed a former general in Saddam's army in charge of security and began joint patrols through the city with local Iraqi forces. So far, the patrols have gone off without major incident. The change in tactics--for weeks...