Word: seale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claque that got him where he is. Some believe that last Christmas, when Reagan was leaning toward increased taxes, he came back on course after a few dinners with the "kitchen cabinet." On his 30th wedding anniversary last week, friends gave him a new tractor lawnmower with the Presidential seal...
...that Reagan and his advisors have been sniffing for some time. Yet even if one accepts this naively Manichean world-view, it is increasingly obvious that the great arms grab beg is securing few benefits for the U.S. The $8.5 billion Awacs deal, heralded as the coup that would seal the U.S. Saudi alliance, is already looking like a debacle. Within weeks of the Senate's narrow approval of the sale, members of the Saudi ruling family declared that, contrary to the views of the Reagan administration, their true enemy is Israel, not the Soviet Union. More recently, the Saudis...
William Clark wants the presidential seal on foreign policy...
...diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation. Used for the first time last week, the new dinner service, with a raised presidential gold seal in the center of the plates and a red-and-gold lattice border, was accompanied by Morgantown crystal from the Kennedy White House and vermeil flatware purchased during the Monroe Administration. When one fretful guest reminded President Reagan of a Greek custom of breaking plates, Ronnie smiled, then said...
...president's armor is formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless...