Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will turn Perot's maverick run into a mainstream bid for the White House. They are convinced that the candidate is in danger of being packaged by a group of slick operators more interested in returning to power than in revolutionizing government. That argument is reminiscent of the "Let Reagan be Reagan" true believers who accused Washington insiders of badly serving the former President's interests whenever he veered away from the conservative creed...
Disagreement also arises over how to publicize the Perot message. San Francisco adman Hal Riney, who helped create Reagan's effective "It's Morning Again in America" television campaign in 1984, has signed on to devise the Texan's television ads. Rollins and Jordan want to launch a full-scale media effort almost immediately, but other aides favor more of the unadorned, direct appeals that have proved so effective in building support. Several key assistants were ecstatic over Perot's performance on an abc town meeting last week. Although the candidate was typically discursive and vague when responding to questions...
George Bush was not in Paris in October 1980. Thus concludes a special House task force after five months of investigating rumors that Bush, then Ronald Reagan's running mate, tried to cut a deal with Iran and delay the release of the 52 American hostages so that Republicans could take credit for their freedom. The panel, however, will continue to investigate whether other Reagan aides conspired with Tehran to seal Jimmy Carter's defeat with a so-called October Surprise...
...embattled liberals, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens. They produced majorities in favor of sustaining the ban on school prayer and strengthening the power of federal courts to review the convictions or sentences of state prisoners. These rulings made conservatives question their assumption that 12 years of Reagan- Bush appointments had produced a right-wing lock on the court. But in order to join the 5-to-4 majority that reaffirmed abortion rights last week, Kennedy had to step away from his own earlier opposition to Roe v. Wade, which he signaled just three years ago when...
...position as more moderate than Scalia, the conservatives' favorite. Kennedy used to be tagged as Scalia's faithful but less brilliant follower (a position Clarence Thomas currently enjoys). Now he has moved to the head of the court's "wimp bloc," complains Gary Bauer, domestic-policy adviser in the Reagan White House. The shift in Kennedy's position, he says, "reflects schizophrenia or cravenness...