Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Ronald W. Reagan won 58 percent of student vote compared to then-Sen. Walter F. Mondale's 42 percent...
Then there was the alleged plot against his life by drug lords. In a separate controversy, his long feud with Washington over its handling of the MIA issue, Perot accused Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, of a nefarious cover-up. In running his successful computer empire, Perot occasionally subjected employees to polygraph tests. Last week seven defectors from his volunteer network charged that they had been targets of improper credit investigations. This pattern is familiar to those who worked with Perot long before he grew politically ambitious. "He keeps so much in his head," says...
...first, she says, the nation has to move away from the Reagan-Bush policies that transformed the war against drugs into a vain attempt at sealing the borders while rounding up dealers and users at home. Ronald Reagan dramatically shifted federal drug-fighting dollars from education and treatment to law enforcement. George Bush sustained those priorities, nearly doubling the antidrug outlay to $12 billion but devoting nearly 70% of it to the cops-and-Coast Guard approach. That strategy has contributed to the costly doubling of the prison population during the past decade. But while casual drug use may have...
...Quayle) jokes. My friends and I would try to imagine ways in which a Democrat could be elected--changing to a parliamentary system, reviving seccession, aliens invading the White House. Mostly, however, we just bashed Republicans. It made us feel better and it was easy to do during the Reagan-Bush years...
This Democratic guilt complex thing worries me. What's the fun of victory if you can't flaunt it? Harry J. Wilson, everyone's favorite campus Republican, wore a T-shirt with Reagan's face on it to the last day of our "American Presidency" section during our first year. Should I run out and purchase a Clinton T-shirt? (Or one of The Crimson's commemorative victory T-shirts?) Hum "Hail to the Chief" as I walk into tutorial next week? Affect a Southern accent...