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...another $15.25 billion in "unspecified savings." Explains a Republican leadership aide: "That usually means there's a cold chance in hell of getting any of it enacted." For example, the House would save $3 billion over three years in reduced Medicare costs, but without cutting benefits. The House somewhat wistfully hopes that the medical profession and private health-care services will voluntarily absorb increased costs...
Ward soberly records these efforts to turn Roosevelt into a model boy, waiting for the explosion that never comes. F.D.R. turns into a complaisant youth, somewhat spoiled but eager to please. Schooling at Groton does not greatly change him, and neither does Harvard. When he is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he claims that his failure to get into Harvard's Porcellian Club 15 years earlier was "the greatest disappointment of my life...
...history, the U.S. faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency. If the President's personal prognosis seemed promising, the outlook for his presidency was somewhat more difficult to predict...
...relapse, on the other hand, will further lead official Washington to consider him a lame duck. For that matter, so too will any indications that his already somewhat unsettling air of detachment has been heightened by his operation and cancer scare. The political dynamics have changed since Reagan was shot in 1981. Then the Hill Republicans were relatively united behind him; now they are badly split and fearful about their own political fates. Almost half the Senate Republicans are up for re-election in 1986, and most are afraid that pocketbook issues like Social Security or tax deductions for second...
...subsequent expansion. But in the beginning "it happened to be one of those spring days where everything was lovely. The air was clear and mild, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains were distinct and sharp, the mesa on the other side--lovely! And the ride up on the old road, somewhat hair raising but very interesting, the old bridge, and then, of course, the Indians; we certainly seemed to enter a new world, a mystic world...