Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Christopher Ogden's biography Life of the Party, Pamela Harriman, for her Senate confirmation to be Ambassador to France, came clean about her entry in Who's Who in America: she was not a college graduate, nor had she done postgraduate work at the Sorbonne. Ronald Reagan so conflated his movies with real life that he often spoke as if he hadn't spent the war years on the back lot in Culver City...
...Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded his practice room be cooled to the precise temperature of the debate hall--and made sure his aides factored in the audience's effect on the ambient temperature. After four climate-controlled mock debates, he went out and demolished Kemp in the real...
...commitment to free trade. They also discussed a philosophy of community that tempered the coldness of capitalism as well as the need to promote a civic society where individual rights carry social responsibilities. The alliance harks back to the conservative one shared by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. But Clinton and Blair are personally closer. "For them it is a generational bond, having come to power in a postideological and post-cold war era," says a White House aide...
...Still, the first directive on nuclear war since Reagan shows that the finger on the button is also on ? or near ? the national pulse. "I'm not sure that many people believed there was some credible definition of what it would mean to prevail in a protracted nuclear war," said Robert Bell, director of defense policy for the National Security Council. No kidding...
...contributed something positive to the world." More specifically, committee member Chandler F. Arnold '98 cites the five characteristics of name recognition, message, speaking skills, broad appeal and whether he or she will show up. So, if we want a nice, positive message like "Just say no," how about Nancy Reagan? She's available...