Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lately congressional Democrats are trying to credit Bush with Saddam's rise as well as his retreat. No fewer than three House committees are looking into the charge that, first as Vice President under Ronald Reagan and then as President, Bush provided Iraq with substantial U.S. assistance that strengthened Saddam's hand as a regional menace. Even as it became clear that Baghdad was moving to dominate its neighbors, Bush, Secretary of State James Baker and other White House officials urged the Commerce and Defense departments to approve sales to Iraq of sensitive U.S. technology that found its way into...
...paper trail emanating from the Gonzalez hearings depicts a long, costly courtship of Saddam. In its early stages, during Ronald Reagan's first term, it was intended to serve a plausible policy assumption: by helping Iraq in its war against Iran, the U.S. would counter Iranian influence in the Middle East while encouraging Baghdad to moderate its own policies. In 1982, three years after Jimmy Carter placed Iraq on the State Department's list of nations supporting terrorism, Ronald Reagan removed Iraq from the list, reopening the way for U.S. aid. The Reagan Administration moved quickly to provide Iraq with...
...team of experts from the fields of education, business and journalism has been working out the details of the school system since March. The eclectic group includes Chester Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration; John Chubb, an expert on government and public policy; and Lee Eisenberg, the former editor in chief of Esquire...
WIRTH: Our system was set up as a reflection of the Founders' deep suspicion of central government. But there have been leaders in modern times and in the past who have been able to mobilize this awkward and very difficult system. Much as I disagreed with Ronald Reagan, he was, in the first three or four years of his term, able to move things. He believed in something and he got it done. A President can set an agenda, can be a rudder. Without such a rudder, each of us in Congress maneuvers for narrow personal or partisan advantage. There...
Midway into his second term -- if he is re-elected -- Bush will have charged by other golden oldies, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, both 69, and Dwight Eisenhower, 70. That would leave Bush second only to Ronald Reagan, who retired to California at age 77. Bush's thyroid problem, his doctor's public concerns about job stress and his televised throwing up into the lap of Japan's Prime Minister have underscored persistent questions about the President's health. There was even the wild media speculation earlier this year that Bush would cite health reasons to make a dramatic exit...