Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Willie Horton scare, the A.C.L.U. attacks. All were leftovers from the Robertson campaign. Bush had been criticized as a "lapdog" early in 1987 when he courted the religious right, calling himself a "born again" Christian. It was assumed that he had to undergo these rituals, but that he would move to the center after surviving the Kemp challenge. What Ailes and his campaign allies did was take the Robertson base and build on it, incorporating all its major themes...
...Democratic Leadership Council was created to free the party from the "encumbrance" of special interests and move it to the center. A centrist candidate who was strong on defense was thought to have the best chance to win the 1988 election, and Super Tuesday was created in the South to give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster...
...touring, some personal relationships were sacrificed, others scarred or put at serious risk. Two hundred sixty-four days is a long time away to be looking for home, and the song, fragile and heartrending, ends the record with unexpected quiet, and intimacy. It is a characteristically bold, even reckless move. Whatever was given up in 1987 remains a mystery, but it is clear, now, what U2 came away with -- the best live rock album ever made. The record, in every sense, of their lives...
Managing the human aspect of the Reagan continuity looms as one of Bush's earliest problems. Many Reagan appointees want to move up in the new Administration. Yet Bush has more personal friends and acquaintances than any other political figure in recent memory, and members of his well-tuned campaign staff understandably expect good government jobs. How Bush resolves the O'Hare-style gridlock over appointments will be an early test of his administrative skills...
More important, to avoid serious problems later, this next President will have to move quickly to make peace with Congress. Enormous budget problems, escalating constantly, promise to bedevil Bush each year. The first major stylistic difference between Reagan and Bush will probably be evident in relations with Capitol Hill. While Reagan happily took on the Democrats, trying to eke out progress via confrontation, Bush prefers conciliation. Some Bush insiders predict a major outreach to congressional leaders almost immediately, an attempt to establish an era of good feelings with a bipartisan consensus on a problem posing a serious threat...