Word: mishmash
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...
Campaign Director William Casey dismissed the entire episode as a "semantic mishmash," but the strained faces of staffers-and of Reagan and Running Mate George Bush, who was at his side during the press conference in Los Angeles-reflected a far deeper concern than that. Reagan's earlier remarks had managed to infuriate Peking, create the impression of a rift between Reagan and Bush, and make Reagan appear to be unschooled in an important area of U.S. foreign affairs. The episode also managed to do exactly what Democrats had been hoping for: it put Reagan on the defensive, correcting...