Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the American people abandoned the conservative principles that twice elected Ronald Reagan in landslide victories, even if the current Republican leadership abandoned them...
...record straight. George Bush's election in 1988 was an historic accident, perpetrated by a handful of New Hampshire Republicans who were duped into believing The Great Communicator had an heir apparent. The fact is, George Bush was to Ronald Reagan what Charlie McCarthy was to Edgar Bergen. And Charlie McCarthy was better...
...THEY CALLED REAGAN THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR. BILL Clinton's new budget proposal has been released as an IBM-compatible floppy disc and is selling surprisingly well. The disc, which also contains his speech to Congress and other supporting documents, sold 900 copies its first week, mostly by word of mouth. They're available by mail from the Commerce Department for $12 each. Even Chelsea Clinton got a copy: a nominee for a Commerce post gave her one to share with her schoolmates in a government class. Maybe they'll have some fresh ideas about cutting the deficit...
...inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...
...expect the occasional tiffs over Chablis and microchip exports -- which occasionally punctuated the relatively laid-back approach to trade during the Bush and Reagan years -- to be settled quite so amicably in the future. President Clinton has, like many moderate Democrats, publicly straddled the trade-off between creating export jobs at home and subjecting U.S. workers to increasing competition from abroad. His speeches gently emphasize the goal of free trade one day, while sounding off against "unfair" competition the next. But behind closed doors, a tough new policy is emerging, and Kantor is primed to play...