Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--When Jerry Brown was governor of California from 1975 to 1983, he slept on a mattress on the floor of a $250-a-month apartment rather than live in the spacious new governor's mansion built under the administration of Ronald Reagan...
...limiting the terms of Bush and Ronald Reagan was "good for the nation," Quayle said, "Then it is certainly good for the nation to limit to two terms people like Senator Ted Kennedy," referring to the fifth-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts...
...executive assistant to Richard Nixon at his law firm, then White House special assistant and speechwriter 1969-72, special consultant 1972, a post he held throughout the first few months of Gerald Ford's term. Columnist, radio and television commentator and panelist, beginning in 1975; director of communications, Reagan White House...
...this in a state with only one interstate, no national sports teams and a hog for its university's mascot. And all this during the Reagan years, when federal aid to states and cities was subject to draconian cuts--cuts that made it impossible for most governors to win two terms, let alone five...
...over a decade, America's poor and politically powerless have lived with Reagan-Bush policies which redirected social spending to a military buildup and which sought to retrain no one for a new world economy...