Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbara's clothes are attractive, but she will never be known, as her predecessor was, by her designer affiliation. To keep from hyping Seventh Avenue, she broke with tradition and did not issue a press release about her Inaugural gown in advance, although details leaked...
...said the presidency is an easy job--especially not Jimmy Carter, Reagan's predecessor and the prophet of malaise. After Carter, who immersed himself so thoroughly in government minutiae that he was even monitoring the White House tennis court schedule, anyone could have made the presidency look simple. Reagan made it look too simple. Nine to five, with an hour for lunch. Three weeks off for major holidays...
Moshe Arens, who is slated to become Israel's new Foreign Minister, has something in common with his predecessor, Shimon Peres: he looks and acts like a gentleman diplomat. But while Peres, the head of the Labor Party, played the moderate during his two years in the post, Arens is expected to act the hard- liner. Arens, 63, was one of the few Israeli politicians who refused to support the Camp David peace accords with Egypt in 1978, and no one expects him to display any less determination in pressing his opposition to negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Warns...
Bush's Middle East policy has yet to be articulated, but officials around him say he will be more flexible than his predecessor, without diminishing U.S. support for Israel. Yet the danger in a dramatic reversal of policy is that it creates expectations that cannot be fulfilled. The gap between what the Palestinians want and what the Israelis may give is as wide as ever. Perhaps most tragically, the P.L.O. may have evolved toward negotiating a settlement at a time when Israel is moving away. Despite what the Palestinians may believe, no recent U.S. President has been willing to muscle...
Mitchell, one of the Capitol's most adroit phrasemakers, may prove more than a match for Bush in articulating his party's agenda. The next President will find the new majority leader less interested than his predecessor, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, in parliamentary procedures, more skillful in forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people...