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...nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since May 1981, after he was shot and responded gallantly to the ordeal. Pollsters say Reagan has consistently higher ratings over a longer period than any other second-term President since polling began...
...economic recovery is undoubtedly the chief reason for Reagan's popularity now--that and the absence of war and the general atmosphere of national self-confidence. The process was painful. Midway through his first term, the New York Times wrote in an editorial, "The stench of failure hangs over Ronald Reagan's White House." Almost 11 1/2 million people were out of work. Reagan's approval rating in the polls fell to 37%. Pushing huge military budgets while cutting social programs created the "fairness issue." The idea of Reagan as a superlatively nice guy was not always operative during...
...William Rehnquist is the Lone Ranger no longer. To his brethren he will henceforth be known as "the chief." Last week President Reagan announced that Rehnquist will succeed Warren Burger, 78, who will step down after 17 years as the highest jurist in the land when the court's term ends next month. On the first Monday in October, when the nine Justices emerge from behind the red curtain to take the high bench, William Hubbs Rehnquist will become the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
...hoping to provide Rehnquist with reinforcements. "The selection of Rehnquist is a selection for the future," contends Sheldon Goldman, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Reagan Administration is counting on being able to make another one or two appointments before the President's term ends. When they do that, they're going to have their court...
...image, not just on the high court but in the lower federal courts as well. Judicial appointments can be a President's most enduring legacy. Federal judges, appointed for life and removable only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," often serve long after a President's term expires. Future vacancies on the high court may offer Reagan a back-door means of achieving the New Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have so far rebuffed. Time, certainly, is on the conservatives' side: the leading liberals...