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...Rudy Giuliani said on Oct. 23 he'd root for his team's bitter rivals from Boston--a town suspiciously close to key primary state New Hampshire. Coincidence? [ ] Romney Trying hard to sell him-self as the Gipper Redux, Mitt Romney released an economic plan that would institute a "Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom...
...Clinton and Barack Obama now run ahead of the GOP candidates in matchups. But as often as not in recent presidential elections, the candidate who eventually won had trailed at some point by margins as large as those now facing the likely Republican nominees. This was true of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992. And in the two most recent elections, Republicans haven't done badly. The GOP candidate made a far closer race of it than expected in a special election in the strongly Democratic 5th Congressional District in Massachusetts, losing by only...
AFTER HE WAS APPOINTED Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, Admiral William Crowe Jr.'s esteemed counsel and leadership helped placate difficult situations with the Soviet Union, Iran and Libya, leading the New York Times to call him the "most powerful peacetime military officer in American history." The nonconformist Vietnam vet with three advanced degrees openly condemned the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy as anti-gay and sharply criticized the buildup to the first Gulf War. He served as U.S. ambassador to Britain during the Clinton Administration. Crowe...
Since Eisenhower left the White House, voters have carved out a Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...added. Before he became chairman of the SEC in 2005, Cox represented California’s 48th district in the House of Representatives, most recently chairing the Committee on Homeland Security. Before that, he served as senior associate counsel to the president from 1986 to 1988, representing Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal. While Cox, who received degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School in 1977, said it was “not self-evident” that the incursion of government-controlled firms and funds into capital markets would bring negative results, he said U.S. policy...