Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning in America campaign...
APPARENTLY, THOUGH, the old maxim still holds: a strong man is a leader, a strong woman is a bitch. Remember how relieved people were when "domineering" Nancy Reagan left the White House and soft, grandmotherly Barbara Bush moved in? We should have been grateful that though we were deluded enough to elect a president who thought trees caused pollution, we still had someone in the White House who had a brain and wasn't afraid...
...American people have suffered enough in 30 years of the Reagan-Bush-Quayle-Kemp administration," Carter says. "It's time to take America back from the destructive, visionless Republicans...
...running mate may not help you," Richard Nixon once said, "but he can certainly hurt you." Gore will appeal in the South and to environmentalists, say the talking points Clinton's aides distributed to the faithful last Friday. Gore's support for the Persian Gulf war will reassure Reagan Democrats. Gore's Ozzie-and- Harriet marriage and his wife's crusade against rock lyrics will add some much needed "family values" points to the ticket. Above all -- it is the No. 1 talking point after the obligatory assertion that Gore could succeed Clinton without missing a beat -- Gore represents John...
...this week's probing study of Clinton's roots. Wills, of course, is no stranger to the task of getting inside the mind of American politicians, having written six books on American Presidents as well as many in-depth articles on incumbents and would-bes. Since he profiled Ronald Reagan in 1987, Wills has written 15 articles for TIME about the forces and people that shape America's political soul. So prolific is this one-time Jesuit seminarian that he occasionally loses count of the number of his books. "Fourteen, or maybe 16" is his guess; but his publisher, Simon...