Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT SPECIAL: JUST A YEAR TO GO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The NBC news team watches President Johnson, Richard Nixon, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan waging their campaigns and non-campaigns on this first program of a new series...
Gesticulating, thumping the lectern and mangling his syntax, the usually supersmooth Ronald Reagan faced a packed audience of newsmen in Sacramento, Calif., last week to quash a columnist's accusation that his administration had harbored a "homosexual ring." He was only partially successful...
...Reagan's target was Drew Pearson; his strategy, counterattack. "He's lying," said the Governor of California. "Pearson shouldn't be using a typewriter. He's better with a pencil on outbuilding walls." How to explain Pearson's attack...
Pearson had charged that two members of Reagan's staff were involved, that Reagan had kept them on for about six months after first hearing about their proclivities and that he finally dismissed them, not for moral reasons but be cause right-wing supporters had object ed to the pair's relatively moderate political views. In his best purple prose, Pearson claimed that an all-male "sex orgy" in a Lake Tahoe cabin had been attended by the two staff members, a part-time athletic adviser to Reagan, two sons of a state senator and a Republican campaign...
...approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed, who is at once inflexibly virtuous and violently inflamed." Listing possible Republican tickets, Buckley offered his own preference-with reservations. "Reagan, Javits-with perhaps the explicit understanding that if President Reagan were to die in office, Vice President Javits would hurl himself upon the funeral pyre in grief...