Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the Siks are the only members of the original caravan still in the valley. Bob Watkins is there, but he flew from Detroit to Alaska in 1959 instead of making the long highway trip. Others drifted away, happy to sell their land for a good price. Would the Siks ever leave...
...would schedule a Cabinet meeting so that we could all go over and take a nap together." Some 2,000 White House and campaign workers gathered on the South Lawn to bid him farewell. To honor the occasion, most of Reagan's top aides accompanied him on the trip and posed for a photograph on the steps of Air Force One. Asked how he felt about his last tour, Reagan said, "You could have mixed emotions about that. There's one that says enough's enough...
Reagan also used the trip for a valedictory summation of his tried-and-true themes. He reminded audiences that "during these past four years, not one inch of territory has been lost to Communist aggression." He ticked off his accomplishments in cutting taxes and lowering inflation and interest rates. He claimed credit for creating 6 million new jobs. And he invariably concluded with an ode to youth and a paean to the American spirit: "We were born to a special place between these two great oceans with a unique mission to carry freedom's torch to a tired...
...There are two bungalows within the compound, one containing offices and various public rooms, the other serving as the Prime Minister's private quarters, where she lived with her son Rajiv, her daughter-in-law Sonia and their two children, Rahul and Priyanka. Rajiv was off on a political trip to the state of West Bengal, preparing the ruling Congress (I) Party for national elections that are due to be held by mid-January 1985. As Mrs. Gandhi's sole surviving son, Rajiv, 40, was also the heir apparent to the House of Nehru and the leadership of India...
...before Whitley can start planning an early Thanksgiving trip home, the Crimson must prove that last month's victory over the Minutemen was no fluke...