Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near disaster. His popularity had dropped in the wake of continuing self-inflicted mistakes; his party had handed him several big defeats and was approving his budget plan in part to keep his presidency from faltering completely. Longtime aides watched in tight-lipped frustration as Clinton brought in Reagan White House veteran David Gergen to beef up his personal staff. With Congress resistant to more taxes, some in Clinton's Cabinet quietly put out the word that health care should be postponed -- perhaps indefinitely...
Then what? Well . . . not all that much, if one is to judge from the precedents set by the two Hoover commissions under Truman and Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter's zero-based budgeting plan, and the Grace Commission, which reported to Ronald Reagan. Some of these efforts did produce worthwhile reforms. But all were frustrated by the realities of the Washington power game. The savvy and iron-bottomed persistence of bureaucrats in protecting their turf is nothing short of awe inspiring. So is the jealousy with which Congress guards its power to spell out for government agencies, in the most niggling detail...
PRESIDENT REAGAN...
...last half of 1989, Greg alternated medicine with a placebo until the Prolixin was completely withdrawn. "In October and November, I started having delusions about Ronald Reagan and the space aliens," says Greg. "I thought I'd seen some space aliens walking around cloaked as humans. Through mind contact, they told me they wanted me to help them infiltrate the U.S. They were already infiltrating police departments and the government...
...reward for my help, they would make me President," says Aller. "Bush knew about their plans, but they said he was afraid of them and wouldn't let them land their ships. My first job was to run for the L.A. County Democratic Central Committee." But, he says, "Ronald Reagan had caught on to me through Nancy's astrologer. She told him I was going to ruin everything, uproot his legacy. All his scandals about Iran-contra would come...