Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course of a single interview, President Ronald Reagan says his administration had not been involved in an arms for hostages trade, admits that such a trade might have appeared to have happened and finally denies that any exchange ever took place...
...student population of "Ec 10," taught by Reagan adviser and baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Felstein '61, edged up to 764 students this year, compared to last year's 743, according to Associate Registrar Thurston Smith...
During his failed 1980 presidential campaign, Bush said unequivocally that he supported a woman's right to an abortion. When he joined the Reagan team, he took on the campaign's position, and he has been a more or less ardent pro-lifer ever since...
...have only heard of his mischievous best seller Myra Breckinridge, his image from countless TV talk shows is indelible -- by turns suave, perverse, a man smarter than anyone else on the set. His waspish ripostes can be frightening to confront but endlessly quotable later -- like his line about Ronald Reagan: "A triumph of the embalmer's art." Handsome, saturnine, Vidal projects the threat that he is capable of derailing anything...
...detente and the beginning of a decade of arms buildup to the political backlash that occurred because of Kissinger's indifference to human rights and obsessive secretiveness, but he also puts considerable blame on Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson and his aide Richard Perle, who later joined the Reagan Administration. In 1974 Jackson and Perle, who were opposed to detente, held the treaty granting the Soviet Union most-favored nation trading status hostage to Soviet agreement to allow expanded Jewish emigration. The Soviets retaliated by shutting off emigration and also, as Isaacson argues, by giving the green light to North...