Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules," the rules don't always apply in the Clinton White House. Critics recall the infamous haircut on the runway, the summary firing of the travel staff, the use of the FBI to investigate the travel operation. "The Clinton message is 'I'm pure,' " said a veteran of the Reagan White House, " 'I'm above the law.' It's almost Nixonian. And it's a tragic flaw...
When Ames was posted to Mexico City in 1981, Nancy did not follow. As in Ankara and New York, Ames was assigned to the CIA's Soviet/East Europe (S.E.) division to hunt potential agents. At that time, with President Reagan soon to embark on a crusade against the "Evil Empire," the fever for recruiting Soviet spies was rising. In the fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based...
...Wall Street Journal, George wrote his first cover, on inefficiency in America. Twenty-one years later, he wrote his 100th, on the disintegration of the Soviet Union. At cover length, he has made sense of the secret sale of arms to Iran, the Los Angeles riots and the Reagan-era U.S. military buildup, among other subjects. So varied is his repertoire that this week's issue also includes his one-page story on Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan...
Neglect of the homeless was one Reagan-Bush legacy Bill Clinton angrily promised to change. Last spring the President ordered three members of his Cabinet to study the problem and propose bold solutions. Last week they did, in a private report to the White House that concluded that the nation's homeless population may have totaled as many as 7 million in the late 1980s -- far higher than any current estimate. The report, signed by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, Health and Human Services' Donna Shalala and Veterans Affairs chief Jesse Brown, proposed spending large new sums...
...black hate. This is a phantom dreamed up by people who knew what slavery ought to have created long before Nat Turner struck out with his heartless blade. Black hate, though, is only a new wrinkle in the increasingly negative portrayal of blacks as a whole. Since the Reagan Administration's rollback of civil rights, African Americans have consistently been brought to the American public as predators -- street thugs and welfare hustlers, inveterate whiners, cynical, pathological. And because the fear is omnipresent, passed on to each group of new immigrants settling in the big cities of America, each...