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…lf War, Bush had deliberately stopped short of sending American forces on to Baghdad. He was also vice-president, under Reagan, when Israel had bombed Saddam’s nuclear reactor — an attack publicly condemned by Washington. I did ask him some years ago whether the Gulf War might ha...

…ounder Andrew Breitbart at a screening of one of the Bannon-Bossie documentaries Jn the Face of Evil (billed as “Ronald Reagan’s crusade to destroy the most tyrannical and depraved political systems the world has ever known”), which in turn led to a relationship with the man who...

…h as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Bush Sr and became radicals. The derailment, he argues, began under Ronald Reagan and reached its zenith under George W. Bush. With the goodwill gone the US "is not able to produce a medium-term credible fiscal trajectory or get agreem...

…lf War, Bush had deliberately stopped short of sending American forces on to Baghdad. He was also vice-president, under Reagan, when Israel had bombed Saddam’s nuclear reactor — an attack publicly condemned by Washington. I did ask him some years ago whether the Gulf War might ha...

…gust 12, when the deal was basically done, seemed both perverse and excessive, and not just to me. Habib, and President Reagan himself, fumed. So did a lot of Begin’s own ministers, with the result, unprecedented in Israeli military annals, that they formally removed Arik’s autho...

… connected the Rus- © sian naval headquarters in Vladivostok with a missile testing range. © In 1980, President Ronald Reagan gave the NSA a clear mandate to expand its interception of foreign communications. In Executive Order 12333, he told the NSA that “all means, consistent...

…y and private markets on the one hand and public responsibility and social welfare on the other — at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead “is the big one, and goes to the very major questions about the role of government,” said G. William Hoagland,...

…victims themselves had been overlooked. 8 The movement gained great visibility in the early 1980s when President Ronald Reagan appointed the President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime. 9 The Task Force published a report concluding that “the criminal justice system has lost an es...

…ments the other night when watching news reports on debt ceiling discussions. Media outlets have referred to President Reagan’s scolding of Congressional Republicans for delaying debt ceiling increases, and the 18 increases that took place during his Presidency. The implication...

…to human rights and global power relations. All this well- before Trump has even been sworn-in. Once in office, Ronald Reagan be- gan the tradition of new U.S. presidents making Canada the first foreign presi- dential visit. George W. Bush notably broke from this tradition, maki...

…e tax rate cuts: buyside more bullish than sellside. In 1986, bank stocks exploded upward (outperforming the S&P) after Reagan’s tax reform bill passed the Senate; and 2) in 2003, the last time we saw personal tax cuts, loan growth industry wide accelerated in 2003 and 2004. e B...

…arrative, her grandmother and two unmarried aunts). She went to George Washington law school and afterward interned for Reagan’s pollster, Richard Wirthlin. Then she became the assistant to Frank Luntz, a curious figure in the Republican Party, known as much for his television de...

…entum is reminiscent of the 1980s movement for a “nuclear freeze” —a Soviet-manipulated protest aimed at halting Ronald Reagan’s modernization of the American nuclear deterrent. Shultz, Kissinger, Perry, and Nunn should have foreseen that their statement would be seized upon by i...

USA Inc. “Business Lines” Have Expanded From Defense to Insurance & Other Areas USA Inc. Major ‘Business Line’ Spending as % of GDP, F1800 vs. F1900 vs. F2000 F1800 F1900 F2000 2.2% 2.5% 18.2% Defense Other 3.0% 0.3% Defense 1.3% Note: Fiscal year 1800/1900 ended in June....

/ BARAK / 129 process, it was hedged with several conditions. The freeze would not be open- ended, but last for 10 months, as a way of boosting the effort to restart negotiations. It would apply to new construction, not work already underway. And it would exclude the post-1967 n...