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That speech started a remarkable policy reversal. To pep up what then looked like a flagging economy, the President had begun the year by calling for a $25 billion tax cut and a $60.6 billion budget deficit in fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. As late as March, misled by alarmist predictions from Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that a continued coal strike would cripple national production, Administration aides led by Robert Strauss forced on mine operators a settlement that will raise wages and benefits nearly 40% over three years...
...rate on capital gains (profits made on the sale of stock, real estate or other assets). Also, Congress and Carter eventually agreed to reduce the total tax cut from the $25 billion that the President had originally requested to $18.7 billion, and to delay its start from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1. While that might seem to flout the message of Proposition 13, policymakers correctly judged that message to be a protest against rising prices as well as rising taxes. A big, early cut, they reasoned, would only fan inflation by deepening the budget deficit...
...investigation of the claims against Charles Engelhard reveals that he is more of a tool than a symbol. In fact, George Croft of The Boston Globe (Oct. 25, 1978, page 70) reports that Charles Engelhard was actually a liberal Democrat who was also a liberal on apartheid! Mr. Croft adds that Mr. Engelhard was a close friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and served as a personal representative of the White House at the coronation of Pope Paul VI and at the Independence Day celebrations in two Africa countries: Gabon and Zambia. Mr. Croft also quoted from a speech Engelhard...
...Engelhard funeral in 1971. And Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison notes that Mansfield is a director of the Engelhard Foundation and that the Foundation has given money to the United Negro College Fund, the National Urban League and to community organizations in Newark, New Jersey (The Boston Globe, Oct. 25, 1978, page...
...investigation, jointly conducted by Cambridge and University officials, was ordered Oct. 23 by a unamimous vote of the Cambridge City Council...