Word: reaganism
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...better? In some ways, as Charren readily admits, it is worse. In the 1970s, partly because of Charren's lobbying, the networks added a host of informational shows for children, from ABC's Afterschool Specials to CBS's newsmagazine for kids, 30 Minutes. During the Reagan years, however, government regulation eased, and most of those shows were canceled or scaled back. Though PBS and cable have added greatly to the diversity of programming for children, network and syndicated fare, which still accounts for the bulk of kids' TV viewing, is largely a ghetto of interchangeable cartoons...
Among voters at large, Clinton's insistence that responsibilities accompany rights is resonating as a Democratic answer to the family-values themes that George Bush and Ronald Reagan have used to capture crucial middle-class Democrats. One particular expression of Clinton's approach, Arkansas' denial of a driver's license to school dropouts, wins applause before every audience he addresses, including two recent gatherings of wealthy Republicans...
...Ronald Reagan flew to Moscow through seven time zones in 1988, when he was 77 years old, and at moments responded like a sack of potatoes. Jimmy Carter frazzled himself and his entourage by racing through seven countries in Europe, Asia and Africa in nine days in 1978. Lyndon Johnson went on a whimsical and wild four-day flight around the world in 1967. When he found out he had overspent his travel kitty, he sent his Bible-thumping aide Marvin Watson skulking around Washington seeking secret funds from other departments...
...small threats with proportionally small forces. That meant, in practical terms, building a whole array of conventional and covert task forces, and client regimes and proxies in the less developed parts of the world. Under Kennedy, the defense budget soared by $17 billion, the single largest peacetime increase until Reagan went goofy in the early...
Sensitive to criticism that they once acted too slowly to resolve the MIA riddle, Pentagon investigators beginning with the Reagan Administration have taken a more aggressive stance, seeking quickly and publicly to investigate all reports of MIAs, even from the most dubious sources...