Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are plenty of reasons apart from ideology for the political press to favor Clinton. One is pure ambition: many reporters covering Clinton hope to follow him to the White House press corps, a major career move, while those who have had the beat during the Reagan and Bush years would gladly shift to editing or columnizing. Another reason is access. Out on the hustings, especially during the primaries, Clinton was inevitably more accessible than a sitting President, who must split his time between campaigning and governing. Moreover, as a matter of style and strategy, even when they...
...alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan knew how to do schmaltz; no one else should ever...
There will be two more debates and plenty more name calling, attack advertising and scare stories. When it gets rough, as it will, it will be easy to forget that the nation is poised to change direction. The end of Reaganism seems at hand. George Bush, the vestigial Ronald Reagan who has called his presidency a "stewardship," is suffering the cancer of politics, the high negatives; his job-approval rating is lower than Jimmy Carter's in October...
...dozen years, the nation's life has been dominated by a philosophy that proposes to limit government, encourage the creation of private wealth and confront enemies with a huge arsenal and a hair-trigger willingness to fight. The record is mixed. The Reagan-Bush policies hastened the collapse of communism and the end of the cold war. But at home only the rich have truly prospered. The middle class is hurting, the poor are poorer, inequality has grown and the country's ability to compete has been hindered by an undistinguished education system and widespread inattention to the problems...
...nation seems ready for change, although fear of it -- and of the untested newcomer who would lead it -- still gives some hope to Bush. A majority may yet decide, in Reagan's phrase, that America's future is too important "to be trusted to a blind date." Enough may agree again with what Bush said four years ago: "Maybe there is an old-shoe familiarity. People will give me credit because, see, I've been through the mill...