Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) pulled out his calculator yesterday at the Kennedy School in an effort to refute charges that that his platform of increased social programs is inconsistent with his pledge to balance the federal budget.
Announcing Kennedy's selection Wednesday, Reagan and his aides put on a show of sweet harmony. Attorney General Edwin Meese, architect of the disastrous Bork and Ginsburg nominations, and Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who had fought all along for a Kennedy-style moderate, made a point of posing ! together...
There remains, to be sure, a certain implausibility about Simon as the eventual nominee. Image is part of the problem; unfashionable bow ties and horn-rims can captivate a limited number of anti-chic contrarians, but they can make a candidate seem quirky to others. So is ideology; Simon's...
We would propose to create a named Charles and Joanne Dickinson Public Service Endowment at the School. To underwrite the Dickinson Endowment, we would pledge the sum of $500,000 to be payable over a period of not fewer than ten years. Our expectation is to make an initial payment...
By Thursday night, however, Reagan at last showed that he recognized the seriousness of the situation -- and the need for action. "We shouldn't assume ! that the stock market's excess volatility is over," he asserted at a White House press conference, and he acknowledged that public fear spread by...