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...will, ultimately, weaken the economy. Liberal economists say that spending cuts and increased taxes in the present state of the economy would only exacerbate recessionary tendencies. Robert Eisner, president-elect of the American Economic Association, says that budget cutting would be a "mindless throwback to the economics of Herbert Hoover...
...Baker and Howard Baker prod Reagan in a series of White House meetings to work toward a market-calming budget compromise. They prep him for his critical 8 p.m. press conference. The President is advised to walk a delicate line: exude confidence about the economy without sounding like Herbert Hoover...
...important for the President to be seen to be in charge, to be leading and taking action. He also needed not to be seen as another Herbert Hoover. He couldn't say, "Don't worry, everything's O.K." But at the same time he needed to be reassuring, and that's not an easy line to walk...
...footage was actually shot by an Afghan resistor trained through Boston University's Afghan Media Resource Center [AMRC], said Donald S. Goldman, associate dean of the BU College of Communications. Hoover apparently obtained the footage when the Afghan resistor came to the United States, Goldman added...
Thomas Goodman of CBS news said the footage was originally part of a tape obtained from Hoover that was made up mainly of his own footage of Afghani subjects...