Word: reaganization
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Such joy. It was the spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming down the White House hall. As she came nearer, I could not help it: I bowed. "Mother," I said, "I just want to touch your hand." She looked up at me--it may have been one of God's subtle jokes that...
...Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history...
DIED. NORMAN B. TURE, 73, evangelist of supply-side economics and considered the principal architect of Reagan's 1981 tax cut, the largest in U.S. history; of pancreatic cancer; in Alexandria...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposes Governor William Weld's nomination as ambassador to Mexico because he feels Weld is not "ambassador quality." As a public service, we hereby provide a comparison of Weld's resume with that of former Mexican ambassador John Gavin, who served under President Ronald Reagan and was confirmed by Senator Helms...
...characterized as soft on drugs. (Weld approves of medicinal marijuana.) Although a fiscal conservative, Weld is too liberal on things like abortion and gay rights to pass muster with Helms. And the Senator still harbors a grudge against Weld, a former U.S. prosecutor, for resigning from the Reagan Justice Department in 1988 and taking a swipe at then Attorney General Ed Meese on his way out the door...