Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whitman, who vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban, are already struggling to be heard over the party's dominant wing of Southern conservatives. Concerned that the resolution might pass, R.N.C. chairman Jim Nicholson took the unusual step last week of publicly urging committee members to vote no. Quoting Ronald Reagan, Nicholson wrote, "Those who agree with us 80% of the time are our allies, not our foes...
...House members spoke with smiles of Bono, whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman, given...
...White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, "by trying to make credible what he's been saying for years: that the budget can actually get balanced." The lesson -- live within your means -- is not particularly sexy politically. But Clinton feels that Americans asked him to clean up the deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, tax-cut-fueled deficits which Monday he called "the failed policies of the past." Now he's offering to finish...
...RONALD REAGAN 1980 Top-billed at last and a new morning in America dawns...
...REAGAN AND ANDROPOV 1983 Unnerving the world with nuclear calculations...