Word: pledgees
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At 11:57 a.m. on Sunday, the 40th President raised his right hand and made the ritual pledge to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." The ceremony was private; the Inaugural date required by the Constitution, Jan. 20, fell on a Sunday this year, and Reagan had the political sense...
For now, that suits the Senate Republican leadership. "It's a good idea," said Dole of the tax plan. "It would be a great legacy for Reagan to leave the country. But it's a big, big undertaking." More urgent to the G.O.P. Senators is deficit reduction, an issue that...
In pushing the cause of the challenge fund, which offered to match every $2 of new or increased donations in the final year with another $1, Stone said. "I myself started out five years ago making a campaign pledge that I thought was about the best I could do. I...
Tunik estimated that by 1988 the government's pledge to support the bank- stock prices will cost it at least $2.5 billion, a figure that is almost as much as the $2.6 billion in aid the U.S. plans to give Israel this year. The cost of the crash is a...
The front runner to succeed Clark appears to be Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel. A native Oregonian, Hodel is as ideologically conservative as Watt but far more approachable. Should Hodel take the helm from Clark, the White House may try to carry out Reagan's 1980 campaign pledge to abolish...