Word: reston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JONESTOWN EXPRESS by James Reston...
...York Times's Scotty Reston, one of the best journalists of his generation, still charges around the world at age 74, probing Presidents and Prime Ministers and urging all those old fogies in public life to retire to their ranches...
...Reston, and many others, had it figured out a year or so ago that Ronald Reagan, House turned 73 on Monday, could barely wait to leave the White House and get to the Pacific hills to savor fully his golden years...
REAGANISM faced down the Democrats again last week, when House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) was forced to recant the last of the positions he took in a revealing interview with columnist James Reston. In that interview, O'Neill let loose on Reagan, damning his work habits, his politics, his understanding of issues, and even his wife, whom O'Neill quipped "would become Queen of Beverly Hills" if the President were to leave office. He also called the recent U.S. invasion of Grenada unjustified. He criticized the administration's attack on the Caribbean island, saying the invasion...
...decline in Democratic response to the Administration. In the wake of the Grenada invasion, Democrats have seen their foremost leaders stumble or keep mum. Kennedy has kept silent, Glenn and Mondale vied for the loudest comfortable position and O'Neill mumbled about keeping our boys safe. Suddenly, in the Reston interview, O'Neill seemed to strike a strong position...