Word: laxalt
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...such a stalemate occurs, Reagan may try to use Congress as a scapegoat in his 1984 campaign. Aides say that he is already thinking about his re-election bid, and last week he persuaded Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a close personal friend, to be the honorary chairman of the Republican National Committee. Others are also looking ahead. Kennedy used his easy race in Massachusetts to flood New England with a series of five-minute ads designed to dispel questions about his personality and character. Senator John Glenn of Ohio will get a boost in building a campaign organization...
Baker nevertheless began lining up his troops. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was on the campaign trail with Reagan at the time, and Paul Laxalt of Nevada were hurriedly flown back to Washington on an Air Force jet. Interior Secretary James Watt was dispatched to Oregon to handle a speaking engagement for Malcolm Wallop so that the Wyoming Senator could return to the capital. Reagan called nearly 20 Senators...
...support from about 100 of the 192 House Republicans. At week's end White House aides could count only 43 firmly committed and another 20 who seemed likely to join him. While the bill seemed safe in the Republican-controlled Senate, Reagan's friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, observed, "This is the most difficult legislative challenge this President has had to face. It's tight as hell." Still, Reagan's clout and the obvious need for new federal revenue may prove decisive. Reagan had one advantage in the struggle: many of the dissidents in his party...
Reagan and the unbudging Kemp were then joined by the entire G.O.P. congressional leadership. Among them was Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative and Reagan's closest friend on the Hill. Said Laxalt of the House defectors: "You're not loyal to the President unless you support the tax bill." "Wait a minute," said Kemp, who has presidential ambitions, "you don't have to be disloyal to the President to oppose the tax increase...
Advisers saw no inconsistency in the two approaches. Reagan, they say, genuinely believes in disarmament and has shaped a wide-ranging U.S. agenda toward that purpose. The President's close friend Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt says that Reagan has shown a messianic zeal on the subject since the attempt on his life in March 1981. At the same time, aides note, the President has never wavered in his suspicion of Soviet intentions, nor in his belief that only a stern policy and a rapid American military buildup can induce the U.S.S.R. to negotiate seriously on arms control...