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...President's close friend Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada was chosen once again to place Reagan's name in nomination. In so doing, he praised the President's brand of leadership as "guts with reason," citing as an example his decision to send U.S. troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada. Said Laxalt: "He made the tough call. If he hadn't, Grenada today might well be in the Soviet orbit." The Nevada Senator was sharply effective in his attacks on the Democratic Party, which he said "is now the home of special interests, the social...
Vice President Bush, the putative front runner for 1988, has tried to become a born-anew Reaganite, religiously defending the fiscal creed he once called "voodoo economics." Nevada Senator and Reagan Friend Paul Laxalt gives him credit for "making significant progress as the ultimate consummate good soldier." But even though Bush has lived in Texas far longer than in his native Connecticut, he cannot escape his Andover-Yale-Skull-and-Bones heritage, nor can he hide his gee-whiz preppie manner. As Laxalt says, "Many conservatives feel that anyone who has been near an Ivy League school is suspect...
...normal nonsense connected with conventions ran an attitude-not a trickle of an attitude like Dallas' Trinity River, but a Mississippi, a Missouri. The attitude involved money only indirectly. Money seemed but a natural consequence of a way of life that called out, as did Paul Laxalt on Wednesday night, for "growth, growth and more growth." The pessimism of the Democrats, which Vice President Bush decried, that was not for Dallas. Caution, timidity, they were not for Dallas. Why, don't people say that Trammell Crow, the warehouse king, added a $160 million wing to the Loews Anatole...
...political theater, Reagan's renomination will be as stylized as kabuki. The plan: Alabama, the first state on the roster alphabetically, will yield to Nevada, so that Senator Paul Laxalt, the party's general chairman, can put Reagan's name in nomination for the third time (Reagan lost out to Ford in 1976). The next state up, Alaska, will yield to the President's home state of California, so that Governor George Deukmejian can nominate Bush. Arizona, the third state in line, will promptly move to close nominations. Then there will be a single roll call...
...pledge specifically that taxes will not be raised in a second Reagan Administration. G.O.R leaders in the Senate and even some of Reagan's top White House advisers are convinced that new taxes are needed to help close the nearly $200 billion annual budget deficit. Admitted Senator Paul Laxalt last week: "It would be less than honest, and unrealistic, for him to lock himself into a no-tax-increase-under-any-condition position...