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Reagan took that advice with zest. At a Minnesota Independent Republican Party fund raiser to help re-elect Senator David Durenberger, the President started slowly but hit his stride by relying on a technique that had served him well in the past. Pointing to young people in the audience, he defended his unparalleled peacetime military spending as a campaign to make America "so strong that no other generation of young Americans will have to bleed their lives into foreign battlefields or beachheads some place out in the oceans." The Republican audience exploded with cheers...
...number of his activities Bush deserves high marks. He is a star Republican fund raiser who since taking office has traveled to 35 states collecting $4.5 million for the party. He heads three special task forces, including one that has had substantial impact on reducing the number of federal regulations. He sees nearly everything that goes to the President. His crisp conduct of National Security Council meetings during the initial weeks of the crackdown in Poland earned him praise from other top Administration officials. But most important, from Bush's point of view, he has won the confidence...
...part because it was fine political strategy. Reagan badly needed a vehicle to avoid dwelling on the depressing but pressing problems of budget deficits and unemployment and to regain domination of the political debate. The White House, therefore, beefed up the federalism idea to give the second-act curtain raiser of the Reagan presidency a show-stopping wallop. Says one adviser: "We thought of it as another go-for-broke idea, a big idea, another way in which Reagan could shape the national agenda...
Ralph F. Colin, a leading Fogg fund-raiser and high-ranking official with the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, leveled the most severe charge at Bok, saying in a private letter mailed to the president Thursday that his decision would cost the Harvard Campaign "far more" than the $3 or $4 million which became the issue of debate just before Bok killed the expansion plans...
...March of Dimes will honor its founder with a dinner in Washington. The Democratic National Committee will stage a fund raiser in New York. So will a gaggle of other organizations, ranging from the Indiana Democrats to the port of Oakland...