Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside bargaining, negotiating and arm-twisting. [Lyndon Johnson] could do this, and Clinton is a lot closer in this way to Johnson than he is to Carter. The last skill is communication. Clinton can do this very well with large and small audiences, as Franklin Roosevelt could, and Reagan and Kennedy," he says...
Southern conservatives placed great faith in the Reagan Administration but were ultimately disappointed by both the Reagan and Bush years because they felt the change both presidents represented did not go far enough, he said...
...from the successes and failures of his predecessors. He used the Dukakis campaign as a how-not-to case study, and after the election he indicated that he would do the same with the Carter presidency. Initially, he seemed to enjoy Lyndon Johnson's rapport with Congress and Ronald Reagan's popularity among the electorate. And the first-hundred-days legislative agenda he proposed promised to rival Franklin Roosevelt's. But there is one person whose playbook he has neglected to borrow: his wife...
...things have not taken long to deteriorate. Soon after the election, he journeyed to Capitol Hill a couple of times for congenial sessions that were typically described in the press as "love-fests." He impressed legislators by knowing their names and speaking in complete sentences, qualities often lacking in Reagan and Bush, respectively. And the goodwill continued through the introduction of his ambitious budget proposal, with Congress congratulating him on making tough choices and then hastening to pass a blueprint of the plan...
...relations with the public as well, the First Lady (or, more appropriately, the Second President) has played Ronald Reagan's game far better than her husband. The Reagan strategy was to "go over the heads" of Congress and directly to the people. He cultivated so much popular support for his agenda that legislators feared they would be punished at the polls if they opposed him. In short, Reagan negotiated with members of Congress in the language they understand best--the selfish and survivalist language of re-election...