Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transition played out. The entire week, not merely the Inaugural, was carefully choreographed. "This is the week," said White House chief of staff John Sununu, "designed to set the tone for governing." The difference in tone was immediately apparent. On the Sunday-night television program 60 Minutes, Reagan once again disparaged civil rights leaders for "doing very well ((by)) keeping alive the feeling that they're victims of prejudice." The next day Bush attended a prayer breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Bush opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and once called King a "militant," but now he hailed...
...didn't the man who Ronald Reagan once said "is part of every decision . . . part of policymaking here" know the magnitude of the problem long ago? Bush wants the nation to believe he did not -- a claim reminiscent of his assertion that he was out of the loop when Iran-contra went awry. To TIME last week, the President professed surprise. "I've started going over the ((deficit)) numbers finally, and they're enormous," he said. "I've been going over the realities of the budget . . . There are constrained resources . . . We've got to be a little careful in terms...
...Bush's vice-presidential chief of staff, agrees that the President has but recently delved deep into the budget. Bush is only now fully aware of the difficulties facing his "flexible freeze," says Fuller, especially if interest rates do not drop by the 3 percentage points that Reagan's last budget wildly assumes they will...
Knowing that Republican conservatives didn't trust him, Bush wooed them assiduously. Sometimes his obsequiousness was comical: until confronted with taped evidence, Bush denied having said Reagan's supply-side nostrums represented "voodoo economics." Sometimes it was dispiriting: Bush changed his positions on issues like abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment in order to conform to Reagan's views. His most blatantly fawning behavior, like saluting Jerry Falwell ("America is in crying need of the moral vision you have brought to our political life") and praising William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher who had belittled him, caused critics to wonder...
...signals from Budget Director-designate Richard Darman were intriguing. At the outset, Darman seemed willing to raise new revenues if euphemisms like "definitional changes" and "user fees" could be substituted for the word tax. Then, in a yin-yang reminiscent of the early 1980s, when he helped craft Reagan's acceptance of revenue enhancements, Darman backed off, invoking the "duck test." No matter what a revenue raiser is called, he told Congress, if it looks like a tax and sounds like a tax, and people perceive it to be a tax, it is a tax -- and thus violates the President...