Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forceful 20-minute TV address, the President portrayed tax reform as nothing less than "a second American Revolution." If enacted by Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
...bipartisanship, but old rivalries and resentments are sure to resurface. Rostenkowski, for one, has some scores to settle with the Reaganauts. In 1981 they lured him into supporting tax cuts and then dumped his compromise bill to pass their own. Though he was all sweetness in his TV address, Rostenkowski is "irritated" that the Reaganauts did not include him in their final deliberations on the tax plan. "They haven't talked to me in 2 1/2 weeks," he publicly growled...
...good address should be reflective, invitational to thought," says Riesman. He considers Solzhenitsyn's speech an abuse of Harvard's influence and institutional neutrality...
Reagan's rejection surprised many because no sitting American president has spoken since 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, an 1880 graduate of the College, delivered the address. Fourteen presidents have received honorary degrees through the years, however, beginning with George Washington...
Regardless, the stage is now set fore Volcker, who last week said he would address either "considerations of long range economic policy" or "the way government works...