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While the term African-American does represent an advance in the continual evolution toward a true identity for a people whose ancestors were forcibly brought to this hemisphere by Europeans, forcibly held in slave labor and forcibly mixed in racial composition, it may be imprecise, or equivocal at best...
...election campaign in 1980. You've heard this a million times from people writing memoirs: it's a little difficult to engage him in a substantive debate. He had a few relatively simple and straightforward ideas. And in fact I didn't see him much as the second term progressed. ((Chief of staff)) Don Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President...
...Washington and for the traditional politician's obsession with power. In a profoundly personal way, Friday's Inaugural will be an even more wonderful day for the nation's oldest President. Eight years ago, many skeptics predicted that he would have to go West for good after one failed term. Instead, he heads home on his own schedule, with a strong sense that he has done what he came to do. Despite the minefield awaiting his successor, Reagan believes, as he grandly put it the other day, "A revolution of ideas became a revolution of governance...
None of this could please the crowd for very long without some hard decisions and tangible results. During Reagan's first term, he delivered < enough of these to prove that he could make the White House work again. Was he serious about fighting those nasty special interests? He broke the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Association and obliterated the union. Would he tame the Kremlin? He put Moscow's bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over...
Hayek, an economist Reagan admires, preached that the free market conquers all. During the first term, such nostrums were handy tools for trimming some obsolete domestic programs and reducing marginal tax rates. But when Reagan reached those goals, he lacked intellectual material for a second act worthy of the first. Here another of his weaknesses came into play with devastating effect. Throughout his career his detached management style made him depend heavily on his senior advisers. After his 1984 electoral triumph, his fatigued White House staff needed relief. Instead of reorganizing it himself, Reagan allowed his then chief of staff...