Word: retrospectively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect, however, the fit between Bob Dole and the anti-affirmative-action cause was not a natural one. Prop. 209 came from outside the normal political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively...
Robert S. McNamara's blinkered 1995 memoir, In Retrospect, did little to change its author's image as an American Faust who sold his soul to a demon technocracy. The former Secretary of Defense is not likely to have a good 1996 either...
That may be happening under our noses. A new party system may be awaiting the Age of Somebody a few years from now, someone who may be so appealingly revolutionary as to make this moment in retrospect seem blindingly quiescent...
Could dole have run differently? Was victory ever in the cards? Perhaps if he had been himself, the difference too few Americans perceived may have resonated more profoundly. At each downturn in his fortunes, Dole promised that "from now on, you'll see the real Bob Dole." In retrospect it seems that the real Bob Dole emerged only once: when he resigned from the Senate. It was a moment when he could have tacked many ways. He was fond of saying that "in a record of more than 12,000 votes, you can make a case for just about anything...
...strong ideological position. He has no large popular following. He has no natural campaign skills that cry out to be exploited. Although an admirable person in many ways, Dole is not, in short, the end point of any rational selection process for a major party's presidential nomination. In retrospect, the Republicans seem to have anointed Dole out of such admirably unpragmatic, old-fashioned motives as honoring achievement and deference to seniority that were thought to be long dead in the Grand Old Party. Which brings...