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...McCarthy succeeded Thomas in representing Bakersfield, when he was first elected to Congress in 2006. What would Reagan make of the modern Republican party?...
...Think of the Reagan Democrats of the 1980s: these tended to be white, working class voters who had been New Dealers on economic policy for generations, but drifted into Ronald Reagan’s camp because of the...
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...Federal prosecutor Thomas Windom said the case would “benefit from normal order including a speedy trial” and that the government would “endeavour” to share discovery with the defence “quickly”....
...My husband, who wrote a book about Alexander Hamilton, likes to remind me about how one of the great political compromises of all time was made over dinner when Hamilton and his antagonist, Thomas Jefferson...
...Donald Trump stepped out of his SUV on Thursday afternoon on to the tarmac of Washington’s Reagan National Airport following a short appearance in federal court....
...Thomas Peterffy, founder of Interactive Brokers, transferred $1mn to Youngkin’s political operation after recently saying he was halting donations to DeSantis....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Thomas Kuhn famously introduced the concept of a “paradigm shift” in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions....
...One GE facility to make nacelles — the gearboxes for wind turbines — is in the works in Schenectady, New York, where the company’s roots date back 130 years to Thomas Edison....
...While working for the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration, Alito expressed his disagreement with Roe in a 1985 memo....
...In the early 1980s, a young man became so obsessed with Hollywood actress Jodie Foster after seeing her in the film Taxi Driver that he attempted to assassinate US president Ronald Reagan in a bid to gain...
...Taking on Thomas Mann is no easy task, but Tóibín’s fictional account of the inner life of the great German novelist is masterful....
...So that was the fertile soil on which subsequent work was then done, in particular by Thomas Piketty....
...It was the harsh medicine that Volcker applied, more than the Iran hostage crisis, that helped pave the way for Carter’s defeat and Ronald Reagan’s victory....
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...Shultz’s death was announced on Sunday by the Hoover Institution, where he was the Thomas W and Susan B Ford Distinguished Fellow....
...He describes Thomas Friedman’s book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, which extolled the triumph of 1990s US-led globalisation, as “Das Kapital for Smart America”, in much the same way as Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged...
...’ criticisms of bureaucracy from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump have eroded trust and support....
...Ronald Reagan too spoke frequently of 1980s America as a “shining city on a hill”....
...see below an excerpt from Panetta, who would agree it seems with some of Peter’s observations: “In 1966, after my service in the Army, I went to Washington to become a legislative assistant to Senator Thomas...
...That put him in the national spotlight overseeing the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Robert Bork, a Ronald Reagan pick who was eventually blocked....
...Indeed, controversy started when the process was scarcely a decade old: Thomas Jefferson and his vice-presidential running mate Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes in the 1800 election...
...Much of the increase in top incomes in the US stems from the 1980s, after the Reagan tax cuts....
...The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War Archie Brown, Oxford University Press, RRP £25/$29.95 Archie Brown’s fluent narrative of the cold war’s end pays deserved tribute...
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