Word: reaganism
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Hoping to give the federal courts a rightward tilt that would last a generation, Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed federal judges who were conservative, white, male and youngish. Nevertheless, President Clinton has a good chance of remaking much of the federal bench as he would like. There are some 850 federal judgeships; Clinton has already made nominations for 48 of them, and he still has close to 100 vacancies to fill, with more to come in the next three years. Clinton's choices so far reflect a much greater interest in nonmaleness and nonwhiteness than was demonstrated by Bush, Reagan...
...fact, said Edwards, a former Republicanmember of Congress, O'Neill was liked andrespected by many of his political foes. "I thinkRonald Reagan liked him a lot," Edwards said...
Accordingly, Patti Davis, middle-aged rebel daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has come to Manhattan's Doral Inn hotel to conduct a one-night-only seminar called Recovering from Dysfunctional Families. The class, which costs $39 to attend, is offered by the Learning Annex, a New York City adult- education center that provides urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held...
...Pentagon had become accustomed to light supervision by civilians under Reagan and Bush, when Defense Department officials routinely had their staff work done by uniformed personnel of the Joint Chiefs. Inman may be less likely than Aspin to fill Pentagon offices with former congressional aides. But if Inman's wise, he will fill posts more quickly. Aspin launched one of the major undertakings of his tenure, a "bottom up" review of military-force needs in the post-cold war era, even as dozens of high-level vacancies remained, including the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force...
...vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976. In 1977 Jimmy Carter named him as head of the National Security Agency, the supersecret electronic eavesdropping and code- breaking service at Fort Meade, Maryland. He liked that so much it took a direct order from Ronald Reagan to move him to the deputy directorship of the CIA, where his probity was needed to balance the unpredictable chief spook, William Casey. In the process, Inman became the first naval intelligence specialist to reach four-star rank...