Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan's advisers yesterday recommended curtailing deposit insurance for bank and savings and loan accounts, triggering swift negative reaction from Congress and the Treasury Department...
...Ronald Reagan's new book, Speaking My Mind, allows him to speak his mind the second time a little differently. In a March 4, 1987, speech on the day of the Tower commission report, Reagan said he "didn't ask enough about the specifics of the total Iran plan." In the introduction to the speech in his book, Reagan has a new explanation for the Iran-contra affair. He wonders whether the whole thing was "a setup, a sting operation, by the Iranians." Over to you, Ollie...
Then there is the boner buried in commentary. A classic example of that appeared in a Washington Monthly review of a book of mine back in 1983. The critic mentioned that I ate breakfast with Ronald Reagan at the White House and "spent weekends with the President at Camp David." Neither assertion was true (not one cornflake with Reagan, not one hoofbeat at Camp David). These and similar inaccuracies supported the punch line that excess access might have warped my perspective. The reviewer later explained that he'd lacked the time to check the information...
Former Admiral John Poindexter was just granted permission to use the ex-president's personal papers to prove that Reagan authorized several arms-for-hostages deals. Poindexter wants to prove that he did not initiate the Iran-Contra fiasco. Who did? Wait for the Reagan Diaries...
...USED to think the final credits were rolling for the Reagan Horror Picture Show. But thanks to a few unresolved scandals and the Reagans' unwillingness to retire into obscurity, devoted fans needn't go through the troublesome process of repealing the 22nd Amendment...