Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a personal appeal from Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan to get Powell to take the NSC job. Powell requested and received permission to retain his Army commission so he could stay on the career track he hoped would lead to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Reagan's term drew to its close, Powell, by then head of the NSC, anxiously scotched rumors that Bush would ask him to stay on. He gratefully accepted the U.S. Forces Command in Fort McPherson...
MANY Americans wonder just how it is that our government gets into some of the messes that it inevitably, regularly does. How did we get so entrenched in Vietnam? How is it possible that President Reagan knew so little about his own administration? How can any administration have as many scandals as Reagan...
When I first heard Leland speak in 1984 to a student group, nothing came across so much as that he cared. He really cared. In the middle of the Reagan Revolution, he tried to convey to a bunch of upper-middle class kids the importance of working for others, those who were less fortunate than we were...
...Administration insists it is not offering to trade for the hostages in violation of U.S. policy, the trap that Ronald Reagan fell into. "We can offer ((the Iranians)) better opportunities with the West, but we're not going to hold out anything specific," said a White House official...
...could prevent it. "We've considered going in for the hostages time and time again for years," says a senior Administration official. "But it's just an exceptionally difficult environment in which to operate." Indeed, the U.S. reportedly knew where Higgins was for several months last year, but Ronald Reagan refused the Pentagon's pleas to be allowed to go in after him because of the risk that the remaining hostages would be killed in retaliation...