Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warrior and a big softie. At Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday party, Colin Powell heard the orchestra strike up the Reagans' favorite song, the Gershwins' Our Love Is Here to Stay, and sang it for Nancy. "Rich baritone," said bandleader Murray Korda...
Controllers trace the troubles back to 1981, the year Ronald Reagan decided to break their union rather than meet its demands for better pay, benefits and safety measures. The FAA fired all 11,000 striking controllers, then contracted with IBM to deliver a system of high-tech computers that would rule the skies. "Rather than incremental changes, they tried to reinvent the system," says Mike Connor, NATCA's director of safety and technology. "They were trying to computerize everything, but you can't computerize human reasoning or decision making." After investing $2 billion and watching the projected costs balloon from...
...Reed his first Washington job: driving around a Republican National Committee bigwig who was distributing presidential cuff links to the faithful. Reed's political godfather was consultant Roger Stone, who saw his charge's talent as an organizer and engineered his rise to deputy regional political director for the Reagan-Bush re-election in 1984. Four years later Reed became a shining star in Jack Kemp's undistinguished presidential campaign and later Kemp's chief of staff. Next stop: the Republican National Committee, where he was executive director, leaving it in strong financial shape. The hallmarks of Reed's style...
...response. They agreed that Forbes would go easy on Buchanan, as Forbes was fishing for voters in the same anti-Washington waters. At a press conference, a TV reporter peppered Forbes with questions about Buchanan's controversial 1992 convention speech. Forbes resolutely avoided criticism, saying repeatedly, "I preferred Ronald Reagan's speech." Dal Col looked on admiringly. "We never discussed that," he says. "His instincts and discipline make me look good." Plus, says a grateful Dal Col, Forbes carries his own bags. Dal Col and Reed know that ultimately they are only as good as their candidates, and they take...
There is some evidence against David's notion that in the eyes of younger people everyone born before the Inchon landing melds together into a single blob of undifferentiated old coot. There is, for instance, my favorite theory about why Ronald Reagan, the most successful oldie-but-goodie candidate in recent times, did so poorly in the Iowa caucuses in 1980, compared with 1976--a theory quickly forgotten after he reclaimed his microphone and his future in New Hampshire...