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...anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later New Mexico's Pete Domenici, a seasoned veteran of the Reagan era's most bruising budget battles, fairly sighed with resignation: "What we have done is what can be done...
Along with Mabus, Mississippi voters swept a whole team of young, fresh- faced reformers into the statehouse. Mike Moore, 35, a county district attorney who until recently was scarcely known outside his Gulf Coast habitat, was elected attorney general, the youngest since 1912. Pete Johnson, 39, a third-generation politician who counts a grandfather and an uncle among former Mississippi Governors, was elected state auditor, replacing Mabus. Said Johnson: "This has been a mandate that Mississippians want to see our state move forward." In other rites of passage, John Stennis, 86, has announced his retirement after 40 years...
Foley denied that Social Security delays were "on the table" and Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters that "none of the automatic cost-of-living indexes are being seriously considered at this point...
Republican presidential candidate Pete du Pont said yesterday at the Kennedy School that the American people have overestimated the importance of the budget deficit and that maintaining low inflation is his top economic priority...
...should not underestimate this image advantage, especially after a kickoff debate in which George Bush finally proved he was indeed up for the '80s. The Vice President displayed a spark and a spunk that many doubted he possessed. After Pete du Pont questioned Bush's principles, Bush counterpoked with a derisiveness that extended to his rival's pet issue and little-used first name. "Pierre, let me help you on some of this," he said. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system." Moments later, Bush was holding his own in a finger...