Word: legacyism
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But that team will owe a lot to the legacy left by Pepper and Hotchkin.
Reagan is in no such happy position. Since Reykjavik the President has suffered one disaster after another: loss of the Senate to the Democrats; the Iran-contra debacle; increasingly bold and successful congressional opposition on everything from taxes to funding of SDI and the Nicaraguan rebels. But as the end...
Working in Reagan's favor is the broad consensus that exists on the most urgent economic remedies. Political professionals cannot understand why Reagan has not put his best skill to use and gone to the airwaves, outlining the future, soothing the markets, sharing a sense of purpose and direction to...
Nearly two years after Aquino won her war of good against evil, the forces of darkness are again threatening to overwhelm the Philippines. Aquino's once unassailable hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she...
Gorbachev did, however, fill in a few of Soviet history's most troubling blanks. Not since Nikita Khrushchev's now famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 had a Soviet leader so emphatically denounced the atrocities of the Stalin era -- particularly the terror-filled 1930s, when millions...