Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN RONALD Reagan said that it was "morning in America," people listened. The most popular and successful politician since Franklin Roosevelt, Reagan could do little wrong in the eyes of the American public. And when he did, few bothered to hold a grudge. But like an Arctic landscape after six months of sunlit summer, the American political picture has suddenly grown dark...
Hamilton Jordan, President Carter's chief of staff and a top Democratic politician, said the Iran-Contra affair will have a major impact on the Republican slate in the 1988 elections...
...gentle, precise manner, Sakharov emphasized the significance of the campaign of democratization and the need for it to continue. The political situation in the Soviet Union is complicated, he noted, and there is certainly opposition to the reforms. But he told us that he considered Gorbachev an able politician whose chances of success in overcoming the opposition he considered good...
...what is new about welfare reform? Three things: 1) such rhetoric now resounds across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan to Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Ted Kennedy, and reflects an emerging consensus that embraces just about every politician who speaks on the issue; 2) states from California through Illinois to New Jersey are experimenting with overhauls of their welfare systems, focused on work requirements, and the Federal Government is talking about giving their efforts a formal blessing; 3) as a result, and at long last, something worthwhile might actually be done. Pondering the diverse sources and remarkably similar conclusions...
...threats to her presidency, Aquino is truly the political beast that won't die. Like Reagan in his halcyon days, she seems to stand above the swirl of events that surround her. In a country in which dishonesty and politics go hand in hand, Aquino is the non-political politician, the woman who claimed she was nothing more than a housewife...