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...He cited former Republican president Ronald Reagan’s tough approach to the Soviet Union at the end of the cold war and compared it with Trump’s suggestion that Russia be allowed to do “whatever the hell...
...By last week, an off-the-cuff comment by the chair of the Saudi National Bank, by now Credit Suisse’s largest shareholder, about refusing to invest any more into the group — combined with jitteriness over...
...The rightwing host was a pioneer of talk-radio in the 1980s, luring millions of listeners through his combative and off-the-cuff style, and helping define the modern Republican party....
...US presidents have form in pressing central bank chiefs to hold down rates — George H W Bush and Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker, Lyndon Johnson and William McChesney Martin....
...Among these is Sir Ronald Lindsay, the first occupant of the Lutyens residence, whose wife, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, was an American aristocrat....
...In a long, theatrical news conference that included off-the-cuff remarks about whether he should “shoot” a Russian spy ship off the US coast, Mr Trump said he fired Mr Flynn because he had misled Mike Pence...
...Mr Trump, who tends to speak off the cuff on the campaign trail, put aside his prepared remarks and lambasted witnesses he accused of “saying everything is peachy-dory”....
...But, he warns, the US is no longer the country of Ronald Reagan, the country “that when someone is in trouble and forces of evil are moving, would stand up and call evil by its name”, he says, presenting...
...In 1980, Ronald Reagan scored points with an off-the-cuff putdown to Jimmy Carter after the latter spoke of the need for national health insurance: “There you go again,” Reagan mocked, speaking more to style...
...Bush was urged to heed the warnings of scientists - just as Ronald Reagan had seen the light and supported the UN ozone layer treaty of 1987....
...Unlike the Kaiser Chiefs and Sir Ronald Cohen, I do not predict a riot. But there could be some spirited placard-waving....
...Or Ronald Reagan, in the 1984 election, who neutralised concerns about his age by promising not to “exploit my opponent’s [Walter Mondale’s] youth”....
...Mr Klein has speculated elsewhere that the internet may restore old-fashioned, off-the-cuff spontaneity to US politics....
...Despite the pleasure he gets from conversation and off-the-cuff speeches, Mr Monks says he prefers the solitude that his surname implies....
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