Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats," the Democratic voters of New Hampshire turned out in great numbers to enthusiastically endorse President Clinton. Receiving over 95 percent of the unofficial vote count, President Clinton topped the New Hampshire primary showings of all unopposed incumbent presidents by much more than anyone expected. Even Ronald Reagan, who went on to win 49 states in the 1984 general election, received only 84 percent of the primary vote in New Hampshire...
...aide. "He's the reverse of most politicians, who are intensely political with trimmings of ideology,'' says Nixon's White House special consultant Leonard Garment. "He's intensely ideological with a trimming of politics." When Buchanan returned to the White House in 1985 as director of communications for Ronald Reagan, he was the same, only more so. "I hadn't encountered anyone like Pat since I had to deal with the White Citizens' Councils in my days as a Mississippi newspaper editor," recalls Reagan's press secretary Larry Speakes in his memoir Speaking Out. "That's not to say that...
...biggest applause getters: "I want to introduce the lady I intend to nominate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, and she won't be in charge of health care." Her private role seems to be the health and care of the candidate. When Pat toiled at the Reagan White House, recalls Linda Chavez, who worked alongside him, "Shelley would mark up newspapers for him, load his briefcase, drop him off and pick him up." Her job description is the same today...
After working for Ronald Reagan in his 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns, Bay at 32 became the youngest U.S. Treasurer in history, in 1981. She later set up shop as a political consultant in California and became a candidate herself in 1990, running unsuccessfully in the G.O.P. primary for California state treasurer...
...Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...