Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crisis-mongering has always been a strategy of conservatives. They realized long ago that the perception of crisis could permit the politicians to make it look like they're doing something for the beneficiary population when they're doing something to it. This, admits Reagan's OMB director, was the conservative strategy as far back...
High political priest of all historians Arthur Schlesinger Jr. assembled a jury a while back to judge presidential greatness. This flocking of fellow liberals quite naturally elevated John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and diminished Jerry Ford and Ronald Reagan. But the shocker was that Bill Clinton was also put down there with Hayes, Arthur and Benjamin Harrison and devastatingly close to Calvin Coolidge. The White House has not stopped quivering in indignation. Clinton's greatest second-term battle may be against historical irrelevance, and there is ample evidence that he understands the difficulty of being a heroic leader...
...ingenious, kinetic, exhilarating). Unfortunately it also provided a template with which countless imitators have since shown what a modern commercial movie can be at its dreariest (mind numbing, mechanical, pointlessly assaultive). For good or evil, Star Wars has been to the past two decades of American moviemaking what Ronald Reagan was to the past two decades of American politics: defining, unavoidable, but hard, in the end, for even detractors to hate...
...after all, he is only one man. The U.S. kept ticking away when Dwight Eisenhower suffered from serious illnesses. When Ronald Reagan was severely wounded, the government kept working. The diagnosis of Francois Mitterrand's ultimately fatal cancer early in his presidential term didn't stop France from functioning...
Wellstone said he could understand why WIC was not fully funded under Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but he expressed his dismay with the Clinton administration's poor budgeting for the program...