Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away from the presidency is held up to an undefined ideal; she bears all America's conflicting notions about women as wives, mothers, lovers, colleagues and friends. A First Lady should be charming but not all fluff, gracious but not a doormat, substantive but not a co-President. She must defend her husband and smile bravely when he says stupid things. She must look great, even fashionable, when a shower and clean clothes would suffice for anyone else; possess perfect children though such critters do not exist in nature; and traipse around the globe in a suit and sensible pumps...
...shine so brightly that every shadow disappears. Reagan's failure was to deny frequently that the shadows existed. While incumbency rounded out some of his early one-dimensional ideas, Reagan clung tenaciously to his phobias concerning Government intervention and federal taxes. Even Bush has had to acknowledge that Washington must act more vigorously in some areas, but Reagan to the end fought that reality. In one of his several farewell talks, he compared advocacy of government activism to "a false determinism ((that will)) take us a mile or two more down what Friedrich Hayek called 'The Road to Serfdom...
...leaving Iran, Reagan had the pleasure of lighting the White House Christmas tree a month late; Carter had left the tree dark as a symbolic acknowledgment of the crisis. In the years that followed, Reagan sent a great deal of welcome electricity into the nation's circuitry. Now Bush must figure out how to pay the power bill...
...That rite has provoked some consternation abroad, as more than 100 nations decide who will attend. For some countries that fought against Japan during World War II or suffered savage casualties in Japanese prison camps, the choice is by no means simple, even 45 years later. They must weigh the political cost of offending veterans against the damage that could result from bruising the sensitivities of a country that plays a commanding role in the world economy...
...issue, but the president of the National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoners of War Association, Harold Payne, reportedly said Mountbatten "would turn in his grave" if he knew of the Prince Consort's plans. Likely to roil the waters further is an upcoming BBC documentary contending that Hirohito must have known of the 1937 rape of Nanking, in which Japanese troops butchered at least 20,000 Chinese, and that he knew at least a month beforehand of the plan to attack Pearl Harbor...