Word: electable
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...months to come by secluding himself with his family. Leaving Los Angeles in a green Marine Corps Huey helicopter for three days at his 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, he was asked if he would be making his final Cabinet decisions. "Oh no," the President-elect replied, "I think I'll be doing work on the brush and the woodpile." And so he did: chopping wood with a heavy double-edged ax and riding horseback every day with his wife Nancy...
Nationally, an ABC News-Louis Harris survey showed that 57% of the people questioned expected Reagan to do a good job in general, and a thumping 72% thought he would "strengthen U.S. defense capabilities to be at least equal or superior to the Soviet Union's." The President-elect inspired somewhat less hope on economic problems; 56% expected him to reduce inflation, and 54% thought he would be able to cut unemployment. Significantly, however, 62% of those inter viewed believed he would "restore the confidence of the American people in Government"-a sentiment damaged in the past by Viet...
Strategists for the campaigns of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), Gov. Edmund G. Brown (D-Calif.), Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.), Vice-President-elect George Bush, and former Texas Governor John B. Connally will also speak, as will chairman of the Republican National Committee, and the Les Francis, executive director of the Democratic National Committee...
President-elect Ronald Reagan's reported plan to establish an "inner circle" of Cabinet members resembles recommendations given to transition officials by Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School...
President-elect Ronald Reagan promised during the presidential campaign to eliminate President Carter's registration program. Reagan has not reiterated his vow since the election, and his advisers have refused to say whether he will support registration once he assumes office...