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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan is getting on. Air Force One is ready for retirement. Economic summits in Venice are old hat -- Jimmy Carter was there for one seven years ago. The dollar is tired and limp, and Paul Volcker about to become a memory. Congress is slower, windier and crankier. Even the 17-year locusts sound unhappy to have emerged again along Washington's troubled streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Seven-Year Itch | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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