Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Salinas used upbeat language to describe their two-hour session at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. They gave few specifics in brief remarks afterward, but Bush aides said topics had included drugs, immigration, trade and Mexico's $102 billion international debt...
...stunning surprise, since the Democrats stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that around 1968 or 1972 they ceased to be the nation's natural governing party. The myth structure that surrounds the victories of Franklin Roosevelt dies hard, even though Democrats conveniently forget that only two of their candidates (Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter) have garnered the support of a majority of the electorate since...
Progressive Governor Hiram Johnson introduced the ballot initiative in 1911 so that California voters could bypass a state legislature controlled by self- interested businessmen. This year, however, all but two of the state's 29 initiatives were sponsored by special interests, which spent a record $130 million. Yet Johnson would have been pleased by the public's ability to resist high-powered persuasion. The insurance industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure...
Cover: Photograph by Cynthia Johnson...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Johanna McGeary, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...