Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What he ought to say is, "if liberalism means that I am going to clean up the 300 or whatever toxic waste dumps in the United States, then I'm a liberal.' There are many other issues--Social Security, Medicare, the Marshall Plan--on which you can say 'yes, I'm a liberal'," Reese says...
...take cover from the attack. Finally, in the last week of the campaign he acknowledged what he was and what he believed. And when Dukakis stood by liberalism, he was standing--not by what Bush called liberalism--but by what a majority of Americans believe in--civil rights, social rights, women's rights, economic rights...
...Neither candidate has been honest enough to campaign on a platform of increasing taxes, yet every president--including Reagan--has raised taxes. Bush's vow of "no new taxes" is demagogic. Dukakis has not provided an answer to this dilemma, but he will not do away with the needed social agenda to gain fiscal solvency...
...subsequent isolation of Syria have checked at least temporarily the most radical and destabilizing players in that area. In Central America the Soviets have indeed established a strategic toehold, but this is unlikely to spell immediate danger for the region because of Nicaragua's economic chaos and social unrest. In fact, for the first time in a generation, one can say that there is not a single international crisis facing the U.S. In such a becalmed environment, what can the two candidates debate...
...choice of John Kennedy in 1960 ushered in a brief but turbulent Democratic revival marked by domestic idealism, the triumph of the civil rights movement and then the agony of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon's victory in 1968 heralded two decades of conservative rebellion against domestic spending programs, social activism and liberal permissiveness that culminated in Ronald Reagan...