Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching the network Friday afternoon reminded me of the coverage of the attempt on President Reagan's life in 1981. Kurt Loder, MTV's newscaster, sat at the station's New York headquarters with a stern look on his face, repeating that Cobain had killed himself and telling the audience "if you never saw this band, you never will have another opportunity." I had figured that out myself...
...tracking polls, focus groups and consulting services, most of it on Clinton's behalf. That compares with the roughly $400,000 the Republican National Committee shelled out to Bush's pollsters in 1989, some of which was for polling in the 1988 campaign. Even Richard Wirthlin, who as Ronald Reagan's pollster was considered to have almost mystical influence over the White House, didn't take the public's temperature for his boss as often as Greenberg does for Clinton...
...think about it because if I think about it I won't be here. I've been beaten many times, and maced by the police, and the Marines and the Navy form the Pentagon would come in and periodically beat me with hammers and knives, and Reagan and Bush supporters used to beat me up as well. It's gotten a little better," Concepcion says, "but Clinton is just the same...
Marenches got on better with Ronald Reagan -- "no intellectual," he avers, "but a good man." During an Oval Office chat in 1981, the count suggested a rather farfetched plan he called "Operation Mosquito" to undermine Soviet morale in Afghanistan -- "so named because one tiny mosquito can drive a bear crazy." The plan consisted of smuggling into Afghanistan hard drugs, Russian- language Bibles and forged copies of the Soviet army newspaper full of subversive articles -- "Disobey orders, shoot your officers in the back, that sort of thing." By Marenches's account, Reagan and CIA director William Casey approved the project...
...Ronald Reagan writes livid letter questioning Ollie's honesty