Word: mind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches...
...written this review about two years ago, I would have filled the page with more such examples of Reagan's evident intellectual ineptitude and brazen disregard for facts, not to mention his self-serving alibis and revisionism about prominent scandals. Speaking My Mind is a veritable treasure trove of Reagan gaffes and misstatements of the kind that filled up two volumes by Mark Green and Gail MacColl, There He Goes Again and Reagan's Reign of Error...
...liberals want to find the issues that win presidential elections, they should pick up a copy of Speaking My Mind. And then offer a liberal version...
...cannot be excluded that the same thing could happen here. We must keep in mind that the electorate, given the past 40 years, is out to punish the Communist Party...
...Government. "You liberal writers are just like the Democrats in Congress," White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater recently lectured a reporter. "You think Government isn't doing anything unless it's taxing and spending and creating new bureaucracies." Yet the Government does still spend mightily where it has a mind to. The Pentagon has done some tactical trimming but remains the biggest Government consumer of all. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is determined to retain as much as possible of the $2.4 trillion Reagan-era buildup -- including a scaled-down Star Wars program, at about $4 billion; the B-2 bomber...