Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of whether Deng is still in charge was first raised in January, when his protege and handpicked successor, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, was abruptly ousted after being blamed for disruptive student demonstrations in December. Deng immediately spread the word that he had favored both Hu's ouster and a crackdown against the students, who were demanding more democracy...
...lines on 'What Was Wrong' and I'm mentioned in 15, less than 2%," he declared. He confided to TIME Correspondents David Beckwith and Barrett Seaman that he planned to resign Monday, on his own schedule. But he was clearly unsettled. No, he didn't know who his successor would be, and no, he hadn't been invited to a Reagan summit that night to discuss presidential strategy...
...which Regan's successor was selected gives scant reason to believe that the President is about to change his ways. He made little effort to weigh Baker's strengths and weaknesses; once again he accepted passively the recommendation of some close advisers. But the choice itself was perhaps the best that could have been made. Reagan's close friend Paul Laxalt explained why he had strongly recommended Baker. The chief of staff, he said, should be "someone with credibility on Capitol Hill, credibility with the press, credibility with party people. More important, he should be a believer in the Reagan...
McFarlane's successor as National Security Adviser "failed grievously" to consider the gravity of the diversion of money to the contras. Poindexter did not show an awareness of the operation's scope or importance, focusing instead on narrow details like who should be on the list of people who would have access to information. On occasion he misled top Administration officials about details of the arms sales and the contra diversion. Poindexter "apparently failed to appreciate or ignored the serious legal and political risks presented" by the contra-support operation, said the commission. It added that, on the evidence available...
...minimize or even cover up the President's role in the 1985 Israeli arms sales. McFarlane had previously admitted helping draft a chronology that was, in his word, "disingenuous." This time he apparently went further: he confessed to writing a memo last Nov. 18, at the request of his successor, John Poindexter, that was deliberately phrased to "blur" Reagan's role. The memo outlined a way in which the President could plausibly deny having approved the Israeli shipments. If his later insistence that Reagan had given that approval is to be believed, then McFarlane knew the denials he suggested...