Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, Wofford defeated former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, 56 percent to 44 percent, by turning the election into a referendum on the policies of the Reagan-Bush era and on national health care...
ROSS PEROT SAYS HE'S NOT A POLITICIAN, BUT HE CERTAINLY has a talent for causing political controversy when he starts talking. Last week when Perot told C-SPAN that President Reagan had encouraged him to accept a 1987 invitation from Vietnam to go to Hanoi and that he delivered an important report to the President when he returned, some former White House officials were outraged. They say that everyone -- the President included -- was totally opposed to Perot's trip but that the tenacious Texan could not be dissuaded. Once in Hanoi, these former Reagan aides say, Perot inappropriately contradicted...
CELLS FROM THE HUMAN FETUS, HARVESTED FROM elective abortions, have shown promise as a source of therapy for many incurable diseases. But four years ago, the Reagan Administration banned the use of federal funds for fetal-cell research, arguing that the practice would legitimize abortion...
...note for 12 years: "You're on your own." Quayle's complaint may be smart politics -- the White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome (and so is now suddenly urging a continuation of the "Reagan-Bush partnership"). But because of what two G.O.P. Administrations have failed to do, Quayle's calculated rant rings hollow and deserves little more than a bemused shake of the head...
Perot has had access to Presidents since he first visited Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. Perot was Ronald Reagan's kind of guy. Reagan appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Reagan thanked Perot for bankrolling three attempts to rescue American hostages in Lebanon. When he was Vice President, Bush arranged for Perot to have a private conversation with Reagan at Blair House to discuss American prisoners Perot believed were being held captive in Southeast Asia. Perot reported that the President had "personally asked me to stay on top of the issue." But when Reagan cooled...