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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the story of the leaked papers broke last year, Casey told the House panel and the FBI that he did not recall seeing any Carter briefing materials. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, however, said that he remembered receiving a briefing book from Casey. The Albosta committee seemed to side with Baker, concluding that his "testimony is corroborated by a credible witness." That witness, Margaret Tutwiler, is a Baker aide who recalled being told by him that he had received the material from Casey. The committee also pointed out a memo written by Robert Garrick, a campaign aide...
...from fully resolving the briefing-book issue." In a strange twist on an old metaphor, Chairman Albosta said: "We have a warm barrel, but the smoke is still to be found.'' Nonetheless, the report concluded that the Reagan campaign conducted "organized efforts" to obtain documents from the Carter camp...
...help from O'Neill in all these promotions, Ferraro brought talent to the tasks and early won the respect of House colleagues. She showed herself to be an organization Democrat who, despite her evident ambition, played by the rules. She loyally supported Jimmy Carter after he sent his mother Lillian to Queens to stump on Ferraro's behalf. "When someone does something for me," Ferraro says, "I don't forget." Congressman Leon Panetta, a California Democrat, vouches for her political savvy. "She doesn't shoot from the hip," he says. "She's sensitive to issues...
...reactions. She is liberal (the Americans for Democratic Action gives her a 75% rating), but not too liberal for her ethnic working-class district, which gave her 73% of the vote in 1982. She is vehemently against deployment of the MX missile, though she supported its development under President Carter. She opposes mandatory school busing, supports tuition tax credits and favors a military draft. On abortion she is pro-choice as a matter of public policy. As a matter of conscience, she is against abortion. "I'm a Catholic," she says, "and I accept the teachings of my faith...
...Federal Reserve Board has been fairly tight with the money supply, and since March the prime rate that banks charge for commercial loans has edged up from 11% to 12.5%. Said Charles Schultze, who served as President Carter's chief economic adviser: "The Reserve Board is determined to keep the economy within noninflationary speed limits." The economists predicted that the prime rate would move up a bit more in the coming months, to 13% or 13.5%, and then level off. That would be enough, the economists forecast, to moderate growth. The blistering 8.8% rate of rise in the gross...