Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what they might be. The American family, as well, desperately needs a new folklore, a new driving myth. The old version, which in caricature is a 1950s suburban setting out of Ozzie and Harriet, does not entirely work anymore, except in nostalgia, in Kennebunkport, Maine, or in Ronald Reagan's afternoon naps...
...chief of staff for a year after re-election. On that proposal, both Bush and Baker are mum. Bush resented having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, and Baker was not keen to return to a job he had for four years under Ronald Reagan. "In the next two months," said a longtime Baker watcher at the campaign, "we're going to find out whether this is just another case for Jim Baker to win a verdict on or whether it's a mission...
...says, he might have opposed it. But here is what Shultz told the Tower commission about the crucial January 1986 meeting at which he and Weinberger made their last stand against the operation: "I expressed myself as forcefully as I could . . . Everybody was well aware of my views." Bush, Reagan, William Casey and Poindexter "all had one opinion, and I had a different one," Shultz said...
...government offered Honduras increased economic, military and covert support in exchange for Honduran military aid to the contras. This quid-pro-quo arrangement, whose existence Bush explicitly denied in 1989, violated the congressional ban on indirect U.S. military assistance to the rebels. Documents obtained by TIME show that Reagan approved the deal and that a copy of the memo authorizing it went to Bush. Bush "concurred" in the stepped-up CIA funding that was part of the deal. And he personally gave the President of Honduras the good news about...
...smooth course to confirmation before the question of racism in the justice system was illuminated by the fires of Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, the Democratic dream of recapturing the White House moved from fond hope to real prospect. After 12 years in which the Reagan and Bush Administrations have filled three-quarters of all federal judgeships with mostly conservative appointees, some Democrats in Congress are now thinking twice about giving fast approval to the dozens of White House court nominees who await confirmation in what may be the waning days of the Bush presidency...