Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Geraldine Ferraro in her campaigning came across as cold and harsh, while the phony, frozen, politician-type smile of Walter Mondale turned us off. Mondale's continuing criticism of success seemed to indicate that we should be penalized for being successful and making our own way in life...
...extent that any politician running for a second term is judged by his record, Reagan's appraisal of his mandate is probably right: voters seem to want more of the same. Yet voters failed to provide him, as they had four years ago, with effective control of the House, though the Senate stayed in Republican hands...
More important than anything else is how an aging but renewed Ronald Reagan reads his own country. Every great President has been a great politician-Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy-even George Washington, who lived before the age of party politics. They could tell by political instinct how far and how fast they could lead their own people. This will be the test of a second Reagan Administration: its reading of the forces that underlay its election...
...always difficult to distinguish between Jesse Jackson and what he stood for. The eloquent young man was a master politician-part preacher, part insurrectionary, part visionary, part hater. Tainted now, however, by racists whom he refused to repudiate, he ran not as a presidential candidate who happened to be black but as the black presidential candidate. And his cause was new-for however he styled it, his cause was that of black separatism within the American political system...
...September, Tacoma-area County Executive Booth Gardner, 48, came out of nowhere not only to win the Democratic nomination in the state's open primary but also to attract enough crossover Republican votes to embarrass the Governor. Gardner, heir to a Weyerhaeuser lumber fortune, styles himself a "citizen politician." He traveled through the state like a breath of fresh Cascades air, accusing Spellman of creating buck-passing commissions to deal with fiscal problems. Spellman fought back by claiming that Gardner was a "shill of labor." The charge backfired when the Teamsters withdrew their endorsement of the Governor...