Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of mayors. Under Pierce's feckless leadership, HUD's budget was pared 70% (it stands at $14.9 billion for 1989). Little was done to halt a decline in the nation's inventory of low- income housing, from which 4.5 million units have disappeared since 1973. Critics charge that programs were dismantled, talented staffers...
...prepared to leave the Government in January, Pierce pointed proudly to his three Government decorations and declared, "President Reagan asked me to reduce the size and cost of Government and at the same time try to take care of the most needy. I think I did that very well." The cynicism of that boast has become glaringly evident. Since the release of a HUD inspector general's report in April, the agency has become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft...
...could such a scandal remain uncovered for so long? The answer lies partly in the fact that no one was looking. During the Reagan years, Congress was more interested in blocking budget cutbacks than in examining how Pierce ran his department. Since housing was an unglamorous beat, few journalists paused to investigate what was going on under Silent...
...Ronald Reagan, retired President, drifted through Europe last week on a cloud of warm reverie and adoration. He collected a knighthood from the British (only the 58th American to do so), and was inducted into the French % Institute's Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (only the sixth U.S. President to make...
...four living ex-Presidents -- Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon -- Reagan alone can boast of an exit from power in good health, both political and physical, and after two full terms of general peace and prosperity. What's more, he even liked...