Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of candidate you like to work with." At least Napolitan had the belated good taste to turn down the Marcos account in 1986. Instead, the aging dictator's last hurrah was handled by Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a firm established in the afterglow of helping elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. This created a bizarre situation in which the Reagan Administration was overtly backing Cory Aquino (managed by Sawyer Miller, a Democratic firm) while some of the President's own political handlers were trying to prop up Marcos...
...member of the Reagan Administration, Baker had a ringside seat on the Shultz-Weinberger rivalry. Similarly, Cheney, from his post as Ford's chief of staff, watched Kissinger wrestle with a tag team of bureaucratic opponents. Cheney and the National Security Adviser at the time, Brent Scowcroft, used to meet at the end of the day in the West Wing of the White House and commiserate about the damage that all the bickering was doing both to policy and to the presidency. Scowcroft is now back in his old job. He sees it as part of his task to stop...
Nixon encouraged backbiting; Ford, Carter and Reagan tolerated it; George Bush won't stand for it. Shortly after his Inauguration, he distributed a list of commandments. "Be frank," reads one. "Fight hard for your position," is the next. Then: "When I make the call, we move as a team...
...vicarious quest for material and a hard-boiled persona. He becomes knowledgeable about firearms by reading about them; he familiarizes himself with the latest in sex toys by researching them at a Frankfurt porno shop. But his education in cardiology is firsthand. "In the seventh year of the Reagan kakistocracy, the medical dyes shooting through my arterial freeways were forced to make a detour around a major obstruction," he writes with calculated self-mockery...
...would not give up. The dashiki he wore in the Texas legislature gave way to Armani suits, the clenched fist to working within the system. After persuading New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Margaret Roukema to join him on a trip to Africa in 1984, Leland got in to see Ronald Reagan, who then agreed to support more foreign food aid and order ships loaded with grain to head for Ethiopia. Leland leaves his wife Alison, who is two months pregnant, a son -- and a world less hungry than it would have been without...