In the 1980 election campaign, President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale used

“attack politics” against Carter’s Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan. They lost.

 

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P-4g Common Mistakes with Quotation Marks

Delete any unnecessary quotation marks in the following items. Write correct after any item

in which the quotation marks are necessary. Answers to even-numbered items can be found

at the back of the book.

EXAMPLE

1. President Ronald Reagan reportedly made fun of himself when he said, “The day after I was

elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”

2. “Back in the day,” President Reagan was popular with many voters outside his political

party.

3. “There you go again” was a notable Reagan response in a debate with Jimmy Carter during

the 1980 campaign.

4. Reagan’s reelection in 1984 was considered a “landslide.”

5. The economic policies of the Reagan administration were based on a theory called “supply-

side economics.”

6. Many commentators acknowledged that Reagan succeeded in achieving the goal he

described as “making the American people believe in themselves again.”

7. Supposedly, after he was wounded in an assassination attempt, Reagan told the doctors

who were about to operate on him that “he hoped they were all Republicans.”

8. In a 1983 speech, Reagan called the Soviet Union “the evil empire,” an attack that drew both

praise and criticism.

9. One slogan associated with Reagan’s foreign policy was “peace through strength.”

10. Although the Iran-Contra “affair” blemished his record, Reagan remained a popular

president.

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