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...example of what to expect, those who served on his staff in California point to a conference he held at the start of his second term as Governor: he demanded immediate action to shape a program that would check the growth of state welfare spending. Of course, even a second-term President has to compromise, as Reagan did as a second-term Governor: in exchange for tighter requirements for getting or staying on the Golden State's welfare rolls, he agreed to higher benefits for those who did meet the test. In another four years as President, he would face...
...next year's election. Therefore the Kremlin is more likely to negotiate an agreement that suits its own purposes some time during the next 15 months, while Reagan is a candidate who needs to impress the voters with his statesmanship, rather than later, when he is a second-term President with the election safely behind him. There is talk of "the 1972 precedent": Richard Nixon was able to go to a summit in Moscow and sign the SALT I accords in an election year, when he was doing a number of things that made the Soviets furious, such...
...same time, the poll provided strong evidence that the American public might look favorably on any incumbent President right now. Of those supporting a second Reagan term, for example, 64% said the country "really needs a second-term President after all the turnover we have had in the past 20 years...
Answers to the second-term question provided fresh evidence of the President's current weakness in the Northeast and Midwest, especially among blue-collar workers and union members. In these constituencies, the preference that Reagan not seek re-election corresponded roughly with the nationwide figures, while professionals and executives were evenly divided on the question. Even in the South and West, where Reagan's appeal is strongest, slight majorities of the voters preferred that he not seek a second term...
...changes, you've got to be totally flexible, whatever comes. Just don't worry about it." Lewis and his wife Marilyn, both 50, seem to spend half their time in automobiles, driving the triangle from their farm outside Philadelphia to Washington and Harrisburg, where Marilyn is a second-term delegate in the state legislature. "I love all the driving," she says, "because it lets me collect my thoughts, and when I'm driving with Drew, it's a private time when the telephone doesn't ring." Drew grouses about the inconveniences-the right clothes...