Word: softener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior adviser admitted that the federation's condemnation was "disturbing," and Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese asked to meet with Hair soon. Watt's difficulty, White House aides believe, stems more from style than substance. Says a Reagan aide: "He's just too confrontational. If he could soften the edges slightly, it would make a big difference." Watt has been told to clear major policy announcements with the White House so that image-conscious aides can try to mute any potential public outcry...
...after Haig telephoned Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi from Manila, claimed his aides, the Iraqis also consented to drop the arms policies provision and soften the call for damages, thereby allowing the U.S. to vote for the resolution...
...advice of Dole, who strongly favors a legitimate compromise rather than a deal with dissident conservative Democrats, the White House invited the top Democratic leadership to a meeting this week. Dole urged the President to soften his hard stance and prevent a drawn-out battle neither side could be sure of winning. But Administration officials felt the time had come to prepare for possible battle, and three Southern Democrats, considered potential allies, were invited to the White House late last week. Plans were also made for a $4 million media campaign financed by the Republican National Committee, featuring the Oval...
...sputters out onto the turnpike, one knows what is going to happen: by sharing a number of misadventures, the man and the woman will fall in love, and the youngsters will learn to abandon their wayward ways. The children's growing affection for their driver will, in turn, soften him so that he can be molded into respectability in time for a denouement that will not miss a single upbeat note...
...spending cuts and then concentrate on cutting taxes by less than Reagan proposes. Says he: "The combination of these two will have to result in a deficit projection no larger than Reagan's." While the Democrats will try to narrow social-spending cuts just enough to soften the wrath of their constituents among the disadvantaged, they will give the President enough to escape public censure for blocking his program. Then if the program fails to spur economic growth and slow inflation, they will put the blame squarely on Reagan. With opponents no more combative than that, White House worries...