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...Yet approval ratings have been trending down for first term US presidents since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s....
...Letter in response to this article: Cheney had a point when he downplayed US deficits / From Arnold J Clift, Deputy Secretary, World Bank, 1993-96, Brattleboro, VT, US...
...Oates was married to her first husband, Raymond J Smith, for 47 years. When Smith died in 2008, she wrote a memoir, a raw accounting of grief and its horrible novelties....
...A bronzed bust of Ronald Reagan that once belonged to Margaret Thatcher....
...The circular Round Robin bar at the Willard InterContinental has watered everyone from Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln....
...Gary Gerstle, professor of American history at Cambridge, tells the tale of a political order that was born with Ronald Reagan and died with Donald Trump....
...Ronald Reagan comes in and you couldn't do enough for business. America would be lifted up. You know, trickle down. Give to big, big is what we need....
...The Reagan wing of the Republican Party is not consequential anymore....
...They include J Bradford DeLong’s forthcoming Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, which analyses the years from 1870 to 2010....
...The movement was championed by politicians, among them Ronald Reagan, and intellectuals such as William F Buckley....
...The original Top Gun, released in 1986, was both a box-office smash and a Reagan-era hymn to American aerial and naval might....
...CIA director William J Burns said in a statement that Powell “offered as fine a model of leadership as I have ever known”. Additional reporting by Katrina Manson...
...The court stated in its ruling: “[Giuliani] communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J...
...Bush’s pearls were a wry spin on tradition — and perhaps, Page says, a way to tweak her predecessor, the impeccably dressed Nancy Reagan, with whom she had a fraught relationship....
...Obama, Trump’s immediate predecessor, gained acclaim for mixing high-end (Vera Wang) with high street (J Crew and Target), and promoting lesser-known American designers such as Jason Wu and Christian Siriano...
...Ronald Reagan had a memorable phrase in nuclear talks with the Soviet Union: trust, but verify. Checking compliance is important and depends critically on what is agreed in the first place....
...Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J Hoberman, New Press, RRP$28.99 Long before the US presidency became the vehicle of a reality TV star, it was the province of a former Hollywood male...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Among the photographer’s subjects were President Gerald Ford and his three immediate successors, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, statesmen such as Henry Kissinger and the scions of famous...
...We like strong, simple statements, such as Reagan’s observation that: “The government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”...
...He grabbed me, pulled me in, and whispered in my ear: “Better than J.Lo, non?” “Oui, Christian. Bien sûr.”...
...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...Perhaps only J Edgar Hoover, the infamous head of the FBI, stayed in his job for longer. As a political appointee, Marshall’s job ought to have been up for grabs with each administration....
...Edward J Giera London SW1, UK...
...Discovering new drugs is getting harder, added Jennifer Taubert, executive vice-president at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the drugmaking division of J&J. “The easy diseases have largely been solved....
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