Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton might not relish comparisons of himself with either Lyndon Johnson or Ronald Reagan. As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, he demonstrated against Johnson's Vietnam policy, and he is now pushing a deficit-cutting program that specifically aims to stand Reaganomics on its ear. But as a bandwagon driver, Clinton is getting off to a start that either of his quick- off-the-mark predecessors might envy. Like them, he is capitalizing on a combination of shrewd planning, guile in bargaining and no little luck to put a stamp on policy that could be lasting...
During the Reagan-Bush years, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to seize most opportunities to chip away at abortion rights. Not so lately. Last Monday the Justices refused to hear Louisiana's plea to revive its defiant 1991 law, struck down by lower courts, which would have banned most abortions and sent noncomplying doctors to prison. The action, the second such within four months, suggests that despite bitter disagreement, for now the high bench is sticking by last term's compromise words: states may restrict abortion, but not ban it or impose "undue" barriers...
...signed James Baker as a partner. Baker is no banker, but as a former Secretary of State and George Bush's veteran campaign handler, his Washington and worldwide connections are unsurpassed. The same is true of the firm's chairman, Frank Carlucci, a former diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary. When teamed with managing director Richard Darman, who as Bush's former Budget Director brings financial as well as political expertise, the group seems like a Republican Administration in exile. And its members hope to lure in another noted nonbanker, Colin Powell, when he steps down this fall...
...Ronald Reagan wasn't our most successful presidential candidate in history because he was the Great Communicator. He won two landslide victories because he was the Great Optimist. But whenever Republican rhetoric or behavior contradicts the cultural expectation of optimism and success, as it did in 1992, we fail...
...Reagan wore his convictions on his sleeve. You knew where he stood and respected him for it. We will not recapture the White House until we have a leader who has a defined platform and doesn't run away from it. As Republicans, we must define ourselves by what we are, not just by what we are against. We must develop a coherent set of policies and principles, and then run on them...