Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, as part of a revolt against an era of Big Government, the name of Ronald Reagan was first put in nomination at a Republican Convention. Richard Nixon won top billing that year, but it was the favorite-son Governor of California who would prove to be the party's most enduring inspiration. First in graceful defeat, then in glorious triumph, and finally as a reassuring symbol of the presidency itself, Reagan became the conservative constant through two decades of Republican resurgence. This Monday in New Orleans, the era's most successful Republican politician will take the podium...
...mightily this week to create an inspiring vision of Reaganism as he would adapt it for the 1990s, he will have to confront the limits of living on borrowed ideology. The militant conservatism that helped propel Reagan to power in 1980 was a philosophy born of frustration. Even when Nixon and Ford held the White House, conservatives felt disenfranchised. That is why it was so easy for Reagan to articulate their resentments over high taxes and meddlesome federal bureaucrats. But because of the very success of Reaganism, Republicans can no longer stoke themselves up with anti- Establishment resentment...
...Richard Nixon isn't in town, but a dozen Nixon loyalists, college kids too young to vote in 1972, march down Bourbon St. carrying "America Needs Dick Now" signs, and vendors here hawk "Nixon in '88" shirts, which sell briskly...
Shortly after Richard M. Nixon entered the White House, he would become the target of the press, the Justice Department and ultimately the legal world for what were perceived to be ethical breaches. If before he was the torchbearer of liberalism under siege, after the second round of controversy, Fortas was simply forgotten or remembered as an embarrassment...
Moreover, Sheehy astutely but unoriginally points out, some of our most recent presidents have been victimized not by bad policies, but by dangerous "character flaws." Richard Nixon's downfall was not Watergate, the argument goes, but his own feeling of paranoia that led him to order the break-ins. Likewise, Reagan's downfall was not the Iran-contra scandal in itself, but rather his inattention to detail and his willingness to delegate responsibility to zealots like Oliver North...