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...share many of the same positions; but their public statements, as Roy Reed wrote in the Times magazine, are very different. Reagan's position on the Panama Canal: "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours." Says Bush: "I understand trying to break out of colonialism. I understand that you don't go out and cut a swath through another guy's country to build a canal. But I think it's of overriding importance that the United States keep its commitments, and that's the reason I oppose the treaty." On paper it may sound like...
...prompting cards, printed neatly with parables and short quips. When cornered to speak on the issues, his answers are hard to distinguish from the one liners. Blockade Cuba. Give business a free hand. Forget about making deals with the Russians, Hang on to the Panama Canal. "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours and we are going to keep...
...letting them go to bed at night wondering what we might do." More cheers. Reagan is building to a climax. "The president told us SALT II had to be ratified or no one would like us. He told us we had to give away our canal or no one would like us. It's time to tell the president we don't care if other countries like us, that instead we want to be respected." Standing ovation...
...Anderson they found a man who supports the Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, gun control, the Equal Rights Amendment and some forms of school-busing, and who opposes the MX missile, B-1 bomber and selective service registration. His record on civil rights has been particularly distinguished; it was his vote in April, 1968 that allowed President Johnson's open housing bill to get through the Rules Committee. But on the economy, the domestic policy area over which a president has most direct control, Anderson remains a conservative, a man who believes a balanced budget is the primary goal...
...asks me whether I want the hydrogen bomb, I say no, I don't want it! It's ridiculous, a bomb. Can you imagine if we had a bomb here, or ten bombs? What do we need them for? They will solve nothing. Maybe to open a canal? I think that nuclear energy can be very useful for peaceful means. Today the amount of weapons existing in the world is really insane. It's folly...