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...gratifying reception for a President who has not heard a lot of applause lately. But elsewhere his plan is sure to provoke as many boos as cheers. Republican Bob Packwood of Oregon and Democrat Daniel Moynihan of New York introduced a tuition tax credit bill in the Senate in 1977, and a bitter debate has been raging ever since. Indeed, even as Reagan basked in last week's cheers, opponents of the program were mobilizing...
Senator Bob Packwood complained that Reagan has a different shortcoming: when confronted with a serious budget proposal, the President tends to respond with a non sequitur."Didn't they know," chortled Congressman Barber Conable of New York, "that successful leaders often must fill awkward moments with digressions...
Republican Senate veterans like Robert Packwood (R-Ore.)deserting Reagan's cause. As the Administration's cuts in social services hit home, the political mood of the nation has shifted further from the right, Sensing this, the press will be less fearful of tempering what once could have been deemed "subjective liberal" criticism...
...Democrat Sam Nunn and top White House aides. Wavering Senators were allowed to amend the letter to make sure that their particular concerns were addressed. "The object is to let a lot of Senators get their fingerprints on it," said a top White House official. Said Oregon Republican Robert Packwood, a leader of the opposition: "It allowed the vote changers a graceful way out." By the time it was delivered to Majority Leader Baker on the morning of the vote, the letter had helped many Senators, including Gorton, Democrat James Exon of Nevada and Republican Frank Murkowski of Alaska, find...
...causing the President grave concern," said the scolding letter. President Ronald Reagan, it continued, "personally asked me to find out why you're holding back." The letter, sent out in September by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, over the signature of its chairman, Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon, was intended to raise funds for G.O.P. senatorial candidates. But the hectoring, heavyhanded hard sell was too much for White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger, who axed the appeal and labeled it "the limit of fund-raising hyperbole." Packwood, who had not written the letter, left town without comment...