Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moler was appointed chair of the FERC by President Clinton, although she served in the commission under presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H.W. Bush...
...with our political system itself. For the past 60 years, the political debate in our nation has revolved around the same thesis of New Deal liberalism proposed by Franklin Roosevelt and expanded by Lyndon Johnson. The antithesis was the conservative critique created by Barry Goldwater and mastered by Ronald Reagan. For six decades, in election after election, the argument continued between entitlement and libertarianism, between providing security and allowing entrepreneurship...
Dole had wanted to be President ever since running with Gerald Ford in 1976. He tried hard in 1980 and harder in 1988 but failed famously, as Ronald Reagan and George Bush won the G.O.P. nomination in those years. "I never thought I'd be doing this again," Dole said in the summer of 1995. "But things just kind of came together to make one more try for the thing...
...Republican presidential coalition crack up in 1996? No, it was already unraveling in 1992, after hinting at weakness earlier. Republican strategists simply didn't understand what was occurring. They insisted their coalition was still young--born on Election Day 1980, when Reagan came to power. In fact, its birth certificate dates back to Nixon's election in 1968, when the South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself...
...four cities a day and have drinks with his aides. But as far as Clinton is concerned, the campaign machinery is designed to have reporters see--at only slightly closer range--just what the public sees. We duly observe the big, exultant crowds generated by expert advance teams, the Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning out, from free cell phones for neighborhood-watch groups to a Website for locating deadbeat dads. We come to both admire and resent his newfound...