Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just don't get him," he complained. He was working on the first authorized biography of a sitting President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Part of Morris' mountainous $3 million advance was already earning interest in the money market. "He seems so vacant, so empty," Morris complained. "Yet he did great things; he was a great President. Maybe as great as Teddy Roosevelt." Edmund had won a Pulitzer for his 1979 biography of the heroic...
...hadn't spent as much time with Reagan as Edmund had, but I had covered him as candidate and as President. I first interviewed Reagan in 1967, when he was Governor of California. I told Edmund that story, hoping it would be instructive...
...Beatty's liberal siphon could be as strong as Buchanan's conservative one, but only if he too jumps to the Reform party, which he doesn't sound too likely to do. Meanwhile, Mr. Big Lead might want to keep his eye on his own backyard - that was Nancy Reagan sitting in the front row for John McCain's do at her husband's Presidential Library in Simi Valley. One thing George Sr., the ex-CIA chief, knew well: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they...
Fifties Guys got shut out of the White House because a couple of World War II Guys, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, won the presidency when they were old enough to be thinking about retirement, and then a Boomer, Bill Clinton, won when he was still in his 40s. If the World War II Guys hadn't been so reluctant to leave the stage and Bill Clinton had permitted the Fifties Guys to go in the normal order, the electorate still might not have reached the point of talking about who "experimented" with drugs (another usage invented for the privileged...
...every bit as vinegary as its author. It's also a stark reminder of just how far on the fringe of the American political spectrum he is. In A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argues for an extreme isolationism that puts him at odds with everyone from Ronald Reagan conservatives to Edward Kennedy liberals. And along the way, he manages to deliver a flurry of jabs and body blows to his favorite punching bags: Jews, Hispanics, blacks, the media and large corporations...