| POLITICIAN | - simple
- basic-man-on-the-street quality
- plain-spoken
- unassuming genuineness
- optimist
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| EXECUTIVE | - hailed for his genius (in helping maneuver a presidential favorite into the Senate leadership)
- relentless discipline
- instinctive
- a work in progress
- risk-taker
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| KOREAN freighter to YEMEN | - sheepishly let it go
- amateurish misstep
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| POLICY | - ardently antiregulation
- scorn for environmentalists
- laissez-faire economics
- supply-side theory
- a general mistrust of federal government
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| LIKE REAGAN | - Reaganesque
- Reagan Lite
- the fruition of Reagan
- Reagan's superior (in the management of a divided, competitive staff)
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| PERSONAL | - westerner
- the least introspective (of presidents)
- unashamedly spiritual
- self-disciplined
- punctual
- diet-conscious
- religious about his gym time (and a good night's sleep)
- devoted to simple mind-clearing outdoor exertion
- impatient (when meetings dawdle)
- devoted homebody
- loner
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| PHILOSOPHY | - Christian moralism
- American nationalism
- a world of black and white
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