Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk, Ronald Reagan thundered, "would vastly and unjustifiably expand the power of the Federal Government" and could even strike a blow against religious liberty. It was the kind of veto message that in years past the President could almost always make stick. But last week nobody except the Moral Majority, some business groups and a handful of conservative Senators was listening, and the most they could do was put off a Senate vote overriding the veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act until early this week. Few in Congress or the White House have much doubt that both chambers will...
...they voted yesterday, many lawmakers, even some who voted to sustain Reagan's veto, denounced a last-minute campaign against the restoration act by the conservative Moral Majority...
...claims not to endorse any specific ideology, but the slogans he literally peddles include "Share the Earth," "The Moral Majority is Neither" and "Join the Army--Travel to exotic, distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them...
...Vice President talks about returning moral values to the classroom, but only recently has he advocated specific, contentious proposals like restoring prayer in school. "I wouldn't be surprised if Bush treated social issues exactly as Reagan learned to do," says a Bush aide. "Reagan paid them plenty of lip service but didn't do too much to actually promote them...
...nation fell into crisis, could Bush show the decisiveness, the moral authority and necessary sense of command to guide the country through the dilemma? "After Ronald Reagan, people may be looking for another John Wayne," says Bush's media adviser Roger Ailes. "Well, George Bush isn't John Wayne. He's Gary Cooper in High Noon. He doesn't want to fight; he'd rather sit and talk things out. But if provoked, he'll fight. And he'll whip you." If the prospective Republican nominee can convince more people that he has that kind of gumption, then the title...