Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meat, conservative lines the campaign insists will win the nomination. The audience has already been shown a 13-minute video titled Bob Dole: An American Hero. The film cost $167,000 to produce and distribute and has the feel of Morning in America, the famous, upbeat Ronald Reagan video. Dole's film is heavy on the story of his road back from the war injuries that left his right arm forever limp and his left only barely usable...
...Dakota on Nov. 4 to join the U.S. delegation to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral. "I told them, 'No more of those pledges,'" he said. "That's it." And then, for the second time in three months, Dole mentioned a man named Rick Smith. Richard Norton Smith directs the Ronald Reagan presidential library, and has been close to Dole since helping the candidate write his book, The Doles: Unlimited Partners. Smith is one of a small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing a slow burn about the campaign's course. They call themselves...
Meanwhile an unofficial Powell organization took shape. "We knew from the people who had called us who was available for what," says Armitage, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan. "We weren't just sitting on our hands." Powell tapped the G.O.P.'s best organizational minds for advice, pressing experts for details about deadlines, delegate slating, issues and policy questions, staffing and fund raising. Duberstein, a former Reagan chief of staff, reached out to a score of G.O.P. political operatives, asking those who were unaffiliated not to commit to any other campaign, even inviting those who had committed...
...under international control. A U.S. diplomatic source says Milosevic has agreed to the "federal-city concept in principle," but Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey has threatened to walk out of the talks rather than accept any division of the capital. The Bosnians have even hired Richard Perle, a top Reagan Administration official, to be in Dayton as a consultant...
...with 1,104 votes, or 33 percent of the vote to Phil Gramm's 26 percent second place showing (869 votes). Lamar Alexander, who garnered a respectable 749 votes, or 22 percent, was quick to claim he's gaining on Dole. Keyes, an African American radio personality and former Reagan Administration official, impressed many delegates with his fiery calls for cultural renewal. Barely crossing the finish line were publishing magnate Steve Forbes(18 votes), California Congressman Bob Dornan (13), and in last place, Senator Richard Lugar (5). Senator Arlen Specter was disqualified because he did not attend the straw poll...