Hints and tips:
...As I have written recently about Carter and Reagan, the potted histories we carry round in our heads can be stubbornly inaccurate....
...The rapper Slick Rick, 56, got his first pair of black suedes in 1982: he has described them as an “extension of my persona”, which he says is “laidback, fly and original”....
...Rentals were also affected, says Aileen Robertson of Carter Jonas’ lettings team....
...“As the product of a single-parent household, I know just how hard this inflation is hurting families trying to make it work on shoestring budgets,” says Rick Scott, the Florida Republican senator who is...
...The stage was set for Donald Trump, US president, to have his own Camp David moment, following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton who brokered seminal peace agreements at the Maryland presidential...
...“It’s obvious that he wants to earn a lot of money,” a Russian intelligence agent posing as a diplomat in New York said of Carter Page, a Trump aide he was cultivating....
...As Jenny, Hayley Atwell is (as she was in the underrated Marvel TV series Agent Carter) the sharpest knife in the box, but far less compassionate, perhaps slightly Aspergic; she often punctuates her pitches...
...Donald Trump has chosen his one-time presidential rival Rick Perry to lead the energy department, according to US media, selecting the former Texas governor who once vowed to abolish the agency despite forgetting...
...Jimmy Carter, the former Democratic president, weighed in on the Republican race, telling the House of Lords in London that faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, he would prefer to see the...
...Ronald Reagan renominated Paul Volcker, who had been Jimmy Carter’s appointee. Bill Clinton renominated Alan Greenspan, who had been Reagan’s nominee....
...That is to say, they love to elevate obscure figures from the provinces (Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama). Poor Mrs Clinton was bucking that trend from the beginning....
...The former has looked kindly on candidates like the Rev Pat Robertson, the obscure “Ambassador” Alan Keyes and Senator Rick Santorum, none whom amounted to much, if anything, in the subsequent great electoral...
...While there is dismay among mainstream Republicans at the success of Mr Cruz and Mr Trump, one Iowan Republican operative jokingly put on a brave face: “If four years of Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan...
...When Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, and George Pataki, a former New York governor, this week joined the swelling ranks of Republican presidential contenders, they were ridiculed by Herman...
...Cruising past the leafy verges and homespun businesses of Americus, Georgia, a banker named Rick Whaley points to another building with parent-like pride....
...The opening backdrop to Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge is 1974, when Americans reeled from humiliation in Vietnam, the shambles of Watergate, an Arab petroleum embargo and “stagflation” – a recession...
...“They don’t have any monopoly on doing good and aggressive investigative reporting, but from their viewpoint, they are putting effort into stories that other people are not telling,” said Rick Edmonds, a...
...Mr Romney said the election was more likely to mirror the 1980 contest between the Democrat Jimmy Carter and the Republican Ronald Reagan, a conservative hero....
...The film, which comes in the week Walt Disney said it would take a $200m writedown on its flop, John Carter, is based on a best-selling young adult book series....
...standing, Ron Paul, the septuagenarian crackpot libertarian, is a happy warrior; Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, is so excited with his vast ego that he has trouble containing himself; while even Rick...
...Apple, of The New York Times, “discovered” Jimmy Carter late in 1975 when he was at 2 per cent in the national polls....
...On election day, unemployment was 7.4 per cent – roughly the rate at which Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were booted out in 1976, 1980 and 1992....
...Disturbingly, the rhetoric of the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry gives support to this Congressional Republican leadership meddling....
...Texas governor Rick Perry’s previous support of Democrats was dismissed as irrelevant by a Tea Party leader, in a sign that the rapidly rising Republican frontrunner for president is gaining allies despite...
...Arresting as the parallel may seem, Mr Perry cannot be Ronald Reagan to Mr Obama’s Jimmy Carter. Reagan was a conservative, but he wore his convictions lightly....
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