Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's contentious remark was a flub, pure and simple. It was based on intelligence reports from U.S. operatives in the Philippines, who stressed that fraud by Marcos forces was overwhelmingly more pervasive than any by the Aquino opposition. Reagan first made the accusation during a practice question-andanswer session with his staff before the Tuesday-night news conference. The President was corrected. But, says a Reagan aide, "he had it in his mental computer, and it couldn't be erased...
Rogers, however, would say only that the commission intends to elaborate on the "flawed" remark -- which was made last week -- at a future public meeting...
...accused his opponent of lacking femininity. The ideal woman, he said at a Manila rally, is someone "gentle, who does not challenge a man, but who keeps her criticism to herself and teaches her husband only in the bedroom." The President had been visibly stung by an earlier Aquino remark accusing him of cowardice for declining to campaign on the island of Mindanao, a hotbed of the Communist insurgency. Four days later Aquino told a warmly receptive audience of more than 1,200 Rotarians in Manila that Marcos was an "inveterate liar," and summed up her speech with the line...
...your business to get involved in politics, let the men do that,"' was a typical discouraging remark that Rinna E. Merculieff heard before leaving her native Aleut Island in the Bering...
...part, even when a film is being shot over a period of weeks. In politics this is known as establishing a clear profile. At Geneva, while talking longingly of peace, the President stayed stubborn on Star Wars. Yet Reagan's Hollywood training did produce one gullible-sounding remark about Gorbachev: "I think I'm some judge of acting, so I don't think he was acting. He, I believe, is just as sincere as we are." Two weeks after Geneva, Reagan was back to lowering expectations in a speech in Seattle: "Geneva let loose a lot of hopes, mine among...