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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texan comes to Newsweek

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Breaking Molds | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

With his usual fervor, Texan John Connally spouted some of the same heresy on a recent visit to Washington. Connally, who was once Secretary of the Navy, would chop $10 billion from the defense budget, and then use that cut as a club to get Congress to hold down the entitlement programs that mainly benefit the middle class and will be responsible for a big chunk of the new deficits. Break the old constraints, Connally pleaded, or soon it will be too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: New Rules for New Problems | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...mesquite miraculously transformed into a luxuriant carpet of range grass as deep as a pickup's fenders. On the other hand, they show for it sometimes a curious tenderness. "Mesquite is very lovely in the spring," Monte Noelke admits; its light greenish blossoms are the West Texan's confirmation that winter is really over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...monument. Illinois' meddlesome Congressman Henry Hyde carelessly spread misinformation and doubt, impugning the sponsors of the idea. Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern, who ran in 1972 and was one of the first and most vehement opponents of the war, rallied behind the campaign. Texan Ross Perot intruded with ideas for bigger and grander edifices and statues. With little fanfare, Nancy Reagan penned thank-you notes to hundreds of the donors among the 250,000 who contributed a total of $6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Tribute to Sacrifice | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...with the welfare and comfort of the First Family. Californians Meese and Deaver have been working with each other, and with Reagan, on and off since 1967, when both joined the Administration of the ex-movie star who had just been elected Governor of the Golden State. Baker, a Texan, came to the Reagan cast only last year, after doing his best, as campaign manager for George Bush, to prevent Reagan from winning the Republican presidential nomination. But despite these backgrounds, Baker and Deaver find themselves drawing closer together personally than either is to Meese. Says Deaver of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Men | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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