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Last week, praising what he called a "bipartisan consensus" on Capitol Hill over the arms control issue, the President hailed the House Appropriations Committee's vote to release $625 million in funding for the controversial MX missile, in return for presidential acceptance of arms control measures contained in the Administration's own Scowcroft report...
Reagan went to great pains to stress that saving Central America was a bipartisan burden. The only two Presidents he invoked were Democrats. He read at length from Harry Truman's 1947 speech to Congress arguing that international...
...specific bipartisan bow was the appointment of a special envoy to seek a peaceful solution in Central America. This was the brainchild of Maryland Congressman Clarence Long, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles foreign aid. Long and his colleagues, however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist...
...give the Europeans that between today and the day of deployment the President will be advised to be sensitive to the European perceptions?" Burt shot back, "We have a problem in Washington and it is the lack of consensus ... we do not have on these issues a bipartisan approach any more...
...shown by a modest 3.1% upturn in the gross national product in the year's first quarter. President Reagan's popularity, which had been slipping for two years, finally rose slightly in one national poll. And on the South Lawn of the White House, Reagan signed a bipartisan bill designed to rescue the Social Security system from bankruptcy. Said he: "Our system can still work when men and women of good will join together to make it work...