Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tsongas also hammered Bush for hisanti-abortion stance, saying the president was"placating the Reagan right" and calling theposition "a Faustian bargain...
Adams has been criticized for moving too slowly in investigating charges of influence peddling at HUD in the Reagan era. Sources say he is far from handing down decisions on other major players at HUD, including Pierce and former executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean. Meanwhile, Dean, who allegedly awarded millions in grants to politically well-connected Republican consultants, has opened an antiques shop in Georgetown to help pay her lawyers...
Clothes hounds were not the only ones eyeing those size-4 designer dresses that NANCY REAGAN wore as First Lady. The Internal Revenue Service was studying them too. Shortly after President Reagan left office, the IRS undertook an audit of his taxes, prodded by former fashion executive Chris Blazakis, who was familiar with the value of Mrs. Reagan's extensive wardrobe. The former First Lady, who promised to stop accepting free designer goodies in 1982, told the tax officials that everything obtained after 1983 was purchased. The designers, however, said she did not pay them. Concluding that between...
...affable, unimpressive public man improbably rises to great power, and it transpires that the master of his ascent is a strong-willed watchdog of a wife with an ambition as long as her enemies list. That political scenario is as classic as Lady Macbeth and as modern as Nancy Reagan, and it was just those predecessors that Marilyn Quayle was being compared to last week. After six months of investigation by Bob Woodward and David Broder, the Washington Post unfurled a seven-part series on Vice President Dan Quayle in which most of the critical scrutiny appeared to be directed...
...dismissed as little more than palace intrigue if the Post had not pronounced her potentially the "most influential First Lady in American history" should Quayle become President. "Their relationship represents what will be the typical political relationship of the future," says Sheila Tate, the former spokeswoman for Nancy Reagan and one of Marilyn's friends. "Most women in their 30s and 40s are career people; from here on out, when their spouse is elected to a public office, these women are going to have the role of senior adviser." That prospect would not be so alarming if, after scarcely laying...