Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from raising taxes look like nothing." In order to fend off wholesale electoral trouble, Reagan will keep pushing for new taxes in an effort to reduce deficits and steady the economy. He will have to endure right-wing carping, but political logic is with him. Says a White House strategist: "The hard right has nowhere to go. Business has nowhere to go either. The blue-collar voters...
This richly documented chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...
...helicopter to Camp David shortly after his appearance. Later, a top White House aide was asked how Reagan felt about it all. The answer: "Just like he did after the New Hampshire primary," referring to the point in his campaign at which the Republican candidate fired his top political strategist just as Reagan was beginning to show that he might win the election...
Haig exploded when he learned that Kirkpatrick had met in New York with Air Force Brigadier José Miret, a political-military strategist in the Argentine government, to discuss U.N. peace initiatives. Haig tracked her down by telephone at an aide's apartment where, TIME has learned, she was conferring with Enrique Ros, the Deputy Argentine Foreign Minister. Haig, understandably angry at Kirkpatrick's apparent disagreement with U.S. support for Britain, blasted her for undermining U.S. foreign policy and blindly supporting Latin interests. Kirkpatrick, in turn, charged Haig with being ignorant of Latin American affairs and suffering from...
...difficulty only to the challenge of avoiding the war in the first place. Some nuclear-freeze advocates argue that no matter how the war started, it would end only by burning itself out?and burning the whole world up. The Pentagon's Ikle, who made his reputation as a strategist partly on the basis of a book published eleven years ago titled Every War Must End, now admits, "War can be very difficult to stop. There is great stress on command and communication, on the structure of government, and destruction takes place very fast. This is an added deterrent...