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Article: The last hurrahs. (Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court and Ronald Regan's last months to impart his foreign policy) (editorial)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 26, 1987
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The Last Hurrahs
The Reagan Administration has just sixteen more months in which it can act to leave its imprint on American life and policy in this century. It has chosen to act in three dramatic ways: to conservatize the Supreme Court, to institutionalize U.S. intervention in Central America and to rationalize relations with the Soviet Union. In a sense, all that has gone before in the Reagan Era is prelude to this grand finale. Fiscal reform, cold war bluster, right-wing rhetoric and military follies from Grenada to the Persian Gulf have been as cherry-bombs to the effulgent fireworks that will burst between now and Inauguration Day, 1989.
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