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...craftsmanship. As a people, we explicitly mandate that the president-elect assume his or her finely detailed duties at a precise time, on a specific day, and in a prescribed manner. The unambiguous character of our language has always rendered the recurrent execution of these commands—what Ronald Reagan characterized in his 1981 inaugural address as “nothing less than a miracle”—an awe-inspiring spectacle of constitutional clockwork...
...Friday's vote). In a TIME interview during that period, Steele praised Obama's election as America's first black President. He made clear that as RNC chairman, he would move to temper the party's rigidity and truculence. In particular, one of the models he pointed to was Ronald Reagan, who, he said, "made it cool to be a conservative." He said he would make clear to local party leaders that "if you want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese...
...President Ronald Reagan lowers car-mileage standards, effectively halting efficiency improvements...
...conference in Mexico City, Ronald Reagan prohibits U.S. international aid from going to organizations that provide abortion-related services or advice...
...street cred is definitely there, she being the first person to head both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), two large non-government industry regulatory bodies, and also a former SEC commissioner under Ronald Reagan. There are no disputes about her leadership qualities or her fine reputation as a consensus builder in the clubby world of financial agencydom. But even her strongest supporters, like Senate finance leader Sen. Charles Schumer of New York wonder aloud if she has what it will take, if she's "willing to take no prisoners...