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...began last October (the ostensible reason for the special session) were a dismal failure. The attempt to pave the road to prosperity with a nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax was stalled by a renegade filibuster. Ronald Reagan and his congressional critics were still at swords' points over the MX missile, and no one dared even mention Social Security, a beast that some had foolishly dreamed the special session would tame...
President Reagan still marches to a different martial drumbeat from the vast majority of Americans when he insists the pace of his record military buildup must not be slowed and the U.S. needs more nuclear weapons. Still, with the glaring exception of the homeless MX missile, Reagan is making significant progress in his drive to reshape public opinion on military matters. A surprising 39% of Americans even agree with the President's totally unsupported contention that the U.S. nuclear-freeze movement, which won impressive victories at the polls in eight states in November, is led by people who have...
Only on the MX is Reagan's military position eroding. Support for producing the MX, which reached 45% in September 1981, dropped to 35% in the latest poll, taken shortly after the President made his TV pitch for the missile. A slim majority (51%) opposes its production, while 14% are uncertain. Thus the congressional votes cast against the new weapon seem politically safe...
...unto others as they do unto you.' They can't go around the world seeking advantages against us and not expect us to respond. They can't acquire a monopoly in the most threatening sort of missiles, first-strike weapons, without expecting us to build the MX...
...leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation of West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President Fran...