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...Who Douglas Elliman House, McLean, VA, $22mn Where In McLean, northern Virginia, about 10 miles from Washington, DC. The drive to the city takes about half an hour, depending on traffic....
...The film is about a young stockbroker named Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who insinuates himself into the inner circle of crooked alpha investor Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) — a man “rich enough not to waste...
...Ferguson first embraced the free market outlook of Thatcher and Reagan as an Oxford undergraduate....
...While Joe Biden is the first president to wear the all-American label to his swearing-in, he follows a long line of Democrats and Republicans alike to favour the brand, from Nancy Reagan to George W Bush...
...This was in 1979, just before Ronald Reagan became president and the east-west stand-off acquired a deeper chill....
...Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, later wrote: “Nothing had entered her own life to erase vivid memories of the German past....
...Encouraged by the same intelligence, US president Ronald Reagan successfully pressed Gorbachev to agree to nuclear weapons reductions....
...“People are afraid to be standing next to [Trump] for fear of getting sick and Biden is able to proceed [as normal],” says Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian....
...On the external front, he was fortunate that his prime ministership coincided with the ascendancy of generally like-minded conservatives in the west, notably Ronald Reagan in the US, with whom he enjoyed...
...He believes Ronald Reagan was America’s greatest-ever president. Having broken one taboo, I say, perhaps he could say a few words about today’s politics?...
...In the 1980s Reagan spent eight presidential years urging people to be rich....
...Everyone’s trying to get in right now,” says Rick Rosa, a LIC-based agent with Douglas Elliman. He adds that even “Manhattanites who weren’t keen to leave the island will think about it now”....
...Notable members Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton (US presidents), Salman Rushdie (novelist)....
...“It most reminds me of when Donald Regan was White House chief of staff for Ronald Reagan and sought revenge,” said Mr Brinkley....
...The GOP leadership’s decision to abandon fiscal rectitude is by no means without precedent: Dick Cheney, vice-president under George W Bush, was said to have declared that the Ronald Reagan years proved...
...It’s a fight in the Republican party,” says Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University....
...All the manoeuvring is a consequence of a president who has put trade at the centre of his agenda in a way few predecessors had, says Douglas Irwin, author of a history of US trade policy....
...The agency built up a client list in which literary names such as Iris Murdoch, Stephen Spender and Edna O’Brien rubbed shoulders with best-sellers — among them Douglas Adams, Frederick Forsyth, Nigella...
...“Reagan had run as an optimist and in many ways Trump ran as a pessimist,” says Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University’s Baker Institute....
...Well, yes, a re-run of Nicias vs Alcibiades arguing the wisdom of an Athenian expedition to Syracuse is probably not in the offing; nor Lincoln-Douglas on slavery and the Union for that matter....
...The answer, they offer, is the sort of trade crackdown that Ronald Reagan mounted against Japan in the 1980s....
...A former student of New York Military Academy, Mr Trump often veered during the election campaign between veneration of past generals, notably George Patten and Douglas MacArthur, and biting attacks on the...
...His allusions to the brilliant and reckless Pacific theatre commander Douglas MacArthur are uniformly positive....
...One of Mr Trump’s predecessors, Ronald Reagan, said it “helped plunge this nation and the world into a decade of depression and despair”....
...Mr Reagan nominated Justice Kennedy after the Senate blocked his first nominee, Robert Bork, and after his second choice, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew amid the opposition....
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