Word: reaganized
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...that while his government was ready to repel any attack, he was "very optimistic" that a peaceful solution could be found. The White House was also cautiously optimistic. Said one Reagan aide: "I think there are reasonable prospects for a settlement...
Prime Minister Thatcher had other good reasons to call for aid from the Reagan Administration. As both sides well knew, Britain has been the firmest ally of the U.S. throughout the 20th century. Whenever the U.S. has asked for similar kinds of help from its friends, Britain has given it, often at considerable cost. In recent years, the Thatcher government has joined in U.S.-sponsored trade sanctions against the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan, endorsed the U.S. call for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics for the same reason, and vociferously criticized the martial-law crackdown...
...Reagan Administration was keenly aware of Britain's desires, yet its reaction was tentative and halting. The U.S. learned of the impending invasion only 48 hours in advance, through British rather
...information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
...time of its creation, the lexicology of “Homeland Security” drew fire. In 2002 conservative columnist Peggy Noonan suggested that George W. Bush reconsider the name. “Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street Journal, “It has a vaguely Teutonic ring--Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!” Noonan seems to have struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes. “Homeland Security” resembles a call...