Word: ronald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raising prodigious sums for the University, Stone was Harvard’s "chief cheerleader," said former University Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel, who served with him on the Corporation...
...controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House staff after the Iran-Contra affair and Bill Clinton reached out to Dick Morris, the political consultant, after the Democrats' whipping in the 1994 mid-term elections...
...Ronald Suleski, assistant director of the Fairbank Center, said he believed that much of the nostalgia for Mao comes from the younger generation. It is this group, Terrill said, who might be buying those green silk pajamas...
...threatening experience, they sought creative help to navigate the waters. And so, the pollster-consultant industrial complex was born. By 1976, the process had been turned upside down. A politician most Americans had never heard of-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia-won the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Ronald Reagan nearly defeated the incumbent President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination. Carter's pollster, a 26-year-old named Patrick H. Caddell, gave him precise poll-driven instructions about how to conduct himself as President. To be successful, Caddell wrote, Carter would have to run a permanent campaign...
...real life, we arrive at most of our political beliefs in far more prosaic and less deterministic ways: a family allegiance, a yearning for JFK's youthful exuberance or Ronald Reagan's telegenic optimism. And the weight of the evening news - a disaster, a war - probably shapes ideological loyalties far more often than some overstimulation of our pleasure centers. Political choices, in other words, are at once more complicated and more obvious than lab-coated investigators give us credit...