Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Claiming to know nothing about the Iran-contra scandal worked for Ronald Reagan and Oliver North. Will it work for Robert Gates...
...Central Intelligence testified that certain activities were known only to people in specific departments, and thus "it is entirely feasible that there are areas that, yes, even the Deputy Director is excluded from." This line of defense prompts a question that was commonly asked in reference to Ronald Reagan...
...this should be easy for Gates and his supporters to accomplish. After all, it's exactly what Reagan and North did five years...
...problem is that creating something like a metro-regional consciousness runs up against middle-class autonomy in all it forms: economic liberty, local political autonomy, Reagan-Bush federalism, and all their corollaries...
...remember 1952 experienced a sharp jolt of deja vu 35 years later during the Iran-contra hearings of 1987. When the Reagan Administration nominated Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as its designated fall guy, North's brilliant attorney, Brendan Sullivan Jr., had his client not only boldly defy Marine Corps protocol by appearing before the congressional panel in full uniform with a chestful of decorations but also present his defense with the same quaver of voice and modicum of manly moisture in the eye that had served Nixon so well. The result was a tidal wave of Olliemania that swept...