Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When one of his fans complimented Ralph Reed by calling him the Christian Lee Atwater, she meant that he combined conservative morality with electoral smarts. But Atwater is gone, and other prominent Republican kingmakers of the Reagan-Bush era--James Baker, Ed Rollins, Charles Black--are out to pasture. To Reed, who last week announced his resignation as executive director of the Christian Coalition, this adds up to what he describes as a "strategic void." The 35-year-old Christian operator is not forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right...
...America, we have taken the opposite trajectory. We run from Donna Reed. We couldn't work in the 1950s. We had to be stay-at-home moms. In contrast to women in the Soviet Union, women in America have a long legacy as symbols of sex and womanly beauty: Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie O. The list could go on forever. Somehow, though, this ability to be proud of one's appearance and to be an ornament has not been enough for American women. Neither has the weak image women receive as mothers been satisfying...
...never does anything psychologically simple had been scheming about Newt's problems for months. Dole told his old campaign manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth...
...Dole let things cool down. Then, two weeks ago, he tried again and sweetened the offer, telling Reed that he would lend Gingrich the money himself. Reed ran the idea past Joe Gaylord, Gingrich's top aide, and this time it wasn't instantly rejected. Gingrich had just returned from China and was on a bit of a roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising...
...CANDIDATE] CHRISTINE WHITMAN NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Her husband is telling everybody she is [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] She'll get the women's vote but not Ralph Reed's [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Princess Diana [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Princess Anne...