Vol.~II, NO.3
WORK'ING FOR~ FREE 'WORLD
January 1989
·Bicentenniai.:·Inaugyration.· I
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by Kathryn-Dohe-rty
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The world .reacfed in most cases with <;ongratulations ·to .the new · President and with fond farewells · to Ronald Reagan. Mich~l Gorbachev , expressed hope that good relations with ,the :soviet Union would~ continue, and expressed~- best wishes to the Reagans and thanked
. Friday, January 20, 1989 marked the Bicentennial Inauguration ceremony in United States 'iiistory~ · George-Herbeit W alkeF Bush became the_Iorty-f1rst President of the United -States. _ · ·· , In .a twenty min~te speech Mr. Reagan for his contributions to . viewed by Jthousand~ at .the capital- · the world. In Panama, Inauguration' steps, George Bush took an Day was ·marked by a five thousand opportunity to thank former President ' person Anti-Reagan 'rally, led by Ronald Reagan, who left the ·office as . Manuel Noriega, who burned an the most popular President of the · .. ~ffigy of Reagan~ · postwfl! era. But J:li.s tone echoed a change from the· Reagan years ,with his the theme 'of 11 the new breeze 'George Bu~ plans to bit the ground runnin'g as President· of the blowing". President Bush e!flphasized the social problems that the country . United States, and plans on building faces, including drug·s, homelessness upon the eeonomic sqccesses of the _ and poverty ~while he·called for unity ' , previous·-admi~istration. He plans to ,among all AmeriCans. At some tinies take a more publically active role in ·. it almo-s t sounded as if Bush was a ' governing· than djd Reagar:t and hopes pryacher, s~ying things like, "W·e are that Congres·s will be supportive and not the sum ·of our· possesions." . He cooperative in a. new bipartisanship in also reminded mat democracy requires ;! foreign policy and domestic matters . .· ·work and service from the citizens and · called · for a new activism in the United States.,
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