Word: legacyism
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The unprecedented move follows months of reported government abuse and widespread popular dissent against Gayoom's regime in the wake of riots in Mal? last September. Local human-rights groups have threatened a campaign to discourage travel to the Maldives, which depends on tourist dollars for 20% of its gross...
Reagan's luck was to find a nation in trouble--in post-Vietnam retreat and disorientation. His political genius was to restore its spirit. And his legacy was winning the longest war in American history, the long twilight struggle of the cold war.
What history will finally make of Ronald Reagan remains, for the time being, history's secret. Surveys have found him ranked high on lists of both the most underrated and overrated Presidents, and yet in recent years there had come a reconsideration of the man and his legacy.
Ronnie felt this was his greatest accomplishment--finding a safe ending to the cold war. And his other great legacy, he felt, was giving our country back its optimism.
That '94 sweep was itself a delayed tremor of the Reagan upheaval. Newt Gingrich's Contract with America drew heavily from Reagan's legacy. But there was another lesson of Reaganism that Gingrich and the Republican class of '94 grasped too late: keep smiling. Even when his views were most...