Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite such ideological balance, Halperin has suffered from a hit-and-run campaign by conservative ideologues, most notably Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan Pentagon official who has been firing off tirades at him since last June. From his berth at the right-wing Center for Security Policy, a private Washington research unit, Gaffney has sent streams of faxes showcasing a highly selective sampling of Halperin's writings to a list of 1,200 leading people in Washington...
...clear and crisp and simple? Curious. During the cold war, especially during its last two decades, liberals claimed that things were not so simple, that only ideologues and dimwits -- Ronald Reagan, for example -- insisted on seeing the world through the prism of the cold...
PRESIDENT REAGAN...
...long-awaited action was passage of the Brady Bill (named for the presidential press secretary who was disabled by gunfire during the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan), which requires handgun purchasers to wait for a background check before taking possession of the weapon. After six years of debate and false starts, the House passed the bill by a vote of 238 to 189. A day earlier, by a 99 to 1 vote, the Senate had made it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell handguns to minors or for minors to possess them under...
Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...