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Like American Presidents going back to Thomas Jefferson during his fight with the first U.S. national bank, Ronald Reagan is finding it convenient to use the top U.S. banker as a sort of whipping boy for the public's dismay over an economy that is not working very well. For the time being, that may prove to be good politics. Certainly, if the economy does not begin to correct itself as next November's congressional elections approach, the pressure on Volcker to expand the money supply will increase sharply. In the end, though, the level of inflation...
...threatened by a change in the fundamental order of things. Nothing to the upset about? Not at Harvard, where "imperialism" is an I.D. on your Soc. Stud, generals, where the Reagan tax cut means a boost in most people's "disposable family income." People feel differently in Jefferson Park, a mile to the northwest, where the housing project is going to slowly crumble and the Food Mart is going to be held up half a dozen times and then probably close, where the bus is going to come less and less often and the public schools are going to turn...
...After four years of getting organized, the twelve-member Memorial Commission acquired a site, 27 acres in West Potomac Park, alongside the river, near the cherry trees and the Jefferson Memorial...
Ghosts are about, like that of the indomitable Abigail Adams, who was so determined to have a Christmas in the unfinished White House in 1800 that 20 cords of wood were burned in all the fireplaces to heat the bleak building. Jefferson, one legend has it, was so moved by the Christmas gaiety five years later that he got out his violin and played a few tunes...
...speculating on whether Harry Truman might join the untouchables, it should be noted that his Administration dealt with 48 complex states and countless millions throughout the world. In Jefferson's and Washington's day our country was but a ribbon along the Eastern seaboard. Lincoln also presided during simpler times, holding together 36 predominantly agrarian states with a population of under 40 million...