Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the handwriting is off the wall, it may bring as much as $500,000 at auction. It may also underscore how important it is to have everything in writing -- a reminder that might have spared Ronald Reagan some embarrassment. In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Reagan misattributed to Lincoln maxims actually written by a 20th century Presbyterian clergyman...
...second question is why family values would be any different or any better under a Bush Administration than under a Clinton Administration. And third, if government or politics can make American family values better, why have not the Republicans under nearly 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush improved the moral tone of the country...
...Many Republican lawmakers, frightened by local surveys that show Bush dragging them down, are skipping the Houston convention. And the G.O.P. is ideologically riven -- over issues from abortion to supply-side economics -- as it has not been since 1976, when President Ford, weakened by a primary fight against Ronald Reagan, lost to Jimmy Carter...
Democrats naturally viewed Bush's yanking of Baker back to the White House as a spasm of desperation. Republicans, however, took heart at Baker's move, for they consider him the only man who might save Bush and their party. Ken Duberstein, who served as Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff, quipped that "Baker can't walk on water, but he knows where the rocks are." A highly organized and disciplined manager, Baker is expected to quickly shape up the White House and campaign staffs, which have piled up "counselors to the President" and "senior strategists" like layers...
...degree to which politics drives policy. During the 1988 campaign, hardly a day passed without Bush decrying the evils of drugs. He knew how to end "this scourge," he said repeatedly; he'd learned "a lot" about the problem at the cia and as the head of President Reagan's drug-policy task force. What exactly he had learned he reiterated after only five days in office: "The elimination of drugs is going . . . to be successful only if our education is successful. The answer to the problem lies more on solving the demand side of the equation than it does...