Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just on weekends, but on workday afternoons. White House press secretary Mike McCurry praises the President's newfound balance between work and leisure, and insists Clinton's hours on the fairways provide important "think time." Says another top adviser: "No one can ever accuse this President of keeping Ronald Reagan hours...
Dornan spoke of the political support he won from former president Ronald Reagan, who urged him to bring his conservatism to various reaches of California...
...Reagan told me, "Why don't you go down there?" Dornan recalled of the former president's advice that he run for a seat in California's 38th congressional district. "The representative there only pretends to be a conservative...
...turns out the Agency is spending about $6 billion a year less than it did at the height of the Reagan era, but $12 billion more than during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. Sen. Bob Kerrey, second banana on the Intelligence Committee, says that whatever happens, at least the CIA will be held accountable for its post-Cold War spending. Now that's using your intelligence...
...Reagan gradually fades into a silent twilight, so, too, however unwillingly, does a certain time of our lives fade into the quiet of memory. It was a time when politics was the concern of other, older people, when American patriotism didn't seem to mean hating the immigrant. It was a time when we made decisions based on what we thought we knew, not on what we thought--when it was possible for me to be a Republican. It was a time that could only occur in childhood, and only, for us, in the 1980s. It was Ronald Reagan...