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...billion tax cut in this year's budget. But in the end the combination of continued strong inflation and higher federal spending ruled out any relief. Warned the President in his State of the Union message: "The urgency of the anti-inflation fight requires that we defer such tax reduction at this time." Thus the Administration's guns-plus-butter spending program is being paid for by still heavier tax loads. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "That's the Carter strategy: to balance the bud get by tax up-creep." The President's skillfully crafted election...
...phoned and awakened the President to tell him of Rabin's preliminary response. I urged him to defer a decision and to call a meeting of his senior advisers for 7:30 in the morning. But Nixon soon called back and said: "I have decided it. Don't ask anybody else. Tell him [Rabin...
...often unarticulated conviction that the area should be preserved for academic use rather than for the general public." Other observers are less kind. One high-level state source, who was party to the conflict, says a group of "Brattle St. Brahmins who think the rest of the world should defer to them" kept the pot boiling...
Unfortunately, that may not be so easy. You're entering a special place in our society. People will be awed by your expertise. You'll be placed in a position of privilege. You'll live well, people will defer to you, call you by your title, and it may be hard to remember that the word doctor is not actually your first name...
...meeting in mid-March, Vance suggested that if the Soviets rejected the comprehensive proposal, the U.S. should be prepared instead to ratify the Vladivostok ceilings immediately and defer to SALT III the resolution of the Backfire bomber and cruise missile as well as deep reductions in the ceilings. Carter approved, as long as the Soviets understood that the comprehensive proposal was the "preferred" U.S. position. The deliberations over the comprehensive proposal were so secret that even the top layer of the bureaucracy was largely ignorant of what had happened until the eve of Vance's departure for Moscow...