Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in the transition, Clinton often praised Ronald Reagan's take-charge first year, when Congress passed a revolutionary package of tax and spending cuts. With Clinton now enjoying high levels of public confidence, some advisers are urging him to follow Reagan's example and spend his political capital on cutting the deficit and fixing the health-care mess...
...does, notes a top Republican strategist who worked for both Reagan and Bush, his start-up problems won't matter. "What does matter is results," he said. "I believe that Clinton knows what he ought to do with the deficit and the economy. But I don't know if he has the political guts to do it. He will be smart if he does. And if he doesn't, it will eat him. We didn't have guts enough to solve it, and it ate President Bush...
POLITICAL RENEGADE PAT BUCHANAN RAISED HIS UMBRELLA AGAINST the gray, damp sky last week as he surveyed the line of guests filing into the White House for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. "The last roll call," he said...
George Bush put the Medal of Freedom around Reagan's neck ("Millions thank God today that you were in the White House"). Reagan is the only President to receive the medal in his lifetime. He was plainly older, hair dominantly gray. But the message was the same: "In America every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone for a voyage that never ends." And the humor that carried him through so much adversity was still handy: "This marks the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House...
...question is whether ((columnist)) George Will was invited," chuckled TV's Larry King, a new arbiter of presidential politics. Will and Nancy Reagan were close friends. Will and Bush were political enemies. In fact, Will was invited but declined. His wife Mari attended, bearing a picture of their six-month-old son David...