Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole invoked the "Brooklyn Dodgers," Clinton went to the Grand Canyon--and with the stroke of a pen made it bigger. Clinton toured nursery schools, talked about putting the Internet in the classroom. Dole visited graveyards, and talked about estate taxes. When he dispatched top aide Scott Reed to Dallas last week to ask Ross Perot to quit the race and endorse him, Perot could sit back, savor the spotlight for one brief second, and call Dole's gambit "weird and inconsequential...
...appeased. As Senate majority leader, Dole embraced the tax reductions called for in Gingrich's Contract with America. But working up a fervor for sweeping tax cuts, rather than accepting them grudgingly, took longer. In April, with the primaries nearly over, Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, had an all day meeting with political and economic advisers to discuss a tax-slashing program. Several wanted to come out with one pronto, but Reed told them Dole was not ready...
Eventually Clinton turned to policy adviser Bruce Reed and said, "So, Bruce, make the case for the bill." Reed had been arguing since 1992 that disposing of failed programs, even if they were Democratic programs, was necessary to bring voters back to the party. At the meeting, he developed a strong policy case: the bill really would move people from welfare to work; it contained enough child-care and health-care money and enough provisions that would force deadbeat dads to support their children. And those who thought that a veto would eventually produce a better bill might well...
After 2 1/2 hours, the meeting broke up with no formal decision. Clinton, Gore and chief of staff Leon Panetta went into the Oval Office; a bit later Reed and John Hilley, the President's top lobbyist to Congress, were summoned. Clinton asked a few more questions. Then he said, "Let's do it," and, rising from his chair, declared, "I want to sign it." Gore patted his shoulder and said, "I know that was tough...
Quoting King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail," Reed said, "A just law is a man-made law that conforms with the law of Nature...