Word: reaganism
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...Harvard College and Law School and at Oxford. He spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July. After becoming U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in 1988, Stephens directed the successful prosecution of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on drug charges...
Bush is one of the five members of that amorphous but exclusive club of retired Presidents. He phones up Reagan and Ford now and then. He sent Nixon 13 photographs of the five of them and asked him to autograph one each for Bush's grandchildren. "I'm not selling these," Bush promised. Nixon signed...
...Reagan: Ollie Lies...
Former President Ronald Reagan thundered into Virginia's Republican Senate nomination contest with an uncharacteristic political attack against a fellow Republican. Complaining that he was "getting pretty steamed" over what he claimed were false Iran-contra statements made by candidate Oliver North, Reagan fumed, "I never instructed him or anyone in my Administration to mislead Congress on Iran-contra matters and the private meetings he said he had with me just didn't happen...
When Vera, then 12, wrote to President Reagan for help, says Blackman, "I made sure the Reagans would see Vera's letter by sending it through an intermediary from my previous years in Washington." The First Family took an interest in the Ziemans, who made national headlines during the historic 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit when Gorbachev sent a warning that the President not see the family. But after the Ziemans were once again denied emigration rights, Reagan intervened, and they were at last granted permission to leave the U.S.S.R. They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts...