Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defensively, Bush's "big decision," said Richard Williamson, a longtime Reagan aide, "was to salute the flag. When the Administration jumped, Bush jumped too." Shortly after Reagan-Bush won in 1980, the Vice President told key staffers that he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. "I'm not going to operate like Mondale," an aide recalls Bush saying. "I'm not going to leak my differences with policies that are unpopular. No one's going to catch me trying to cover my ass that way." And no one ever did. By the end, even some of Bush...
...verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan is that a successful President takes "a principled position and stays with it," Bush's own success may depend on yet another 180 degrees turn...
...George Bush took the oath of office last week, another, less heralded transition was quietly taking place in news bureaus throughout the capital. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, who became the embodiment of the White House press corps during the Reagan era, stepped aside after twelve years on the beat to co-anchor a new ABC prime-time news hour due later this year. The Washington Post's Lou Cannon, who started covering Reagan in his early days in California, began a leave of absence to write a book about the Reagan presidency...
Like the incoming Bush Cabinet, the new White House press corps has many familiar faces. Lesley Stahl, who covered Reagan's first term for CBS News, is returning. So are veteran Reagan watchers for ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits...
Still, the White House is considered a plum assignment, especially in television, because almost anything the President does or says makes the front page and tops the evening news. Exploiting this seemingly insatiable appetite for presidential news was one of the Reagan Administration's key contributions to the long history of White House press manipulation. By placing the President in attractive settings -- meeting foreign heads of state or splitting wood at his California ranch -- the White House p.r. apparatchiks provided the networks with the daily supply of visuals they desired, while cultivating the image of an active and accessible leader...