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...going to domestic programs will be sharply reduced in real terms, Government spending has gone up 25% since Reagan took office and now accounts for 24% of the total economy. "The truth has sort of caught up with him," said one of Stockman's few harsh critics, Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. "Stockman was too clever for the country. He was misleading at almost every turn with those blooming figures." Pennsylvania's Republican Senator John Heinz offered a slightly more charitable assessment: "Stockman won a lot of battles, but he lost...
Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May portrays Kennan’s two documents as a decisive shift in post-war thought. “[In 1946] a lot of people in Washington were concerned that Truman would have a primarily domestic focus, maybe even isolationist...[but] Kennan’s analysis was very persuasive to Truman [with its] argument of the Soviet threat and its understanding that the U.S. can’t retreat from the world...
...public sector, on top of the 1% already awarded for this year. Private-sector employers are furious, saying the hike will set a national precedent when they can ill afford it. "If we increase pay without increasing productivity, we'll be destroying competitiveness and creating unemployment," griped Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of the employers' federation. But unions say firms can afford raises, pointing to recent record profits from oil giant...
...Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History...
...Martin L. Weitzman, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics...