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Some White House aides muse that an across-the-board freeze in domestic spending would save more money and stir less passionate opposition than cuts in specific programs. But that approach would present problems too: Congress might demand that military outlays be included, while Reagan would insist that they be exempted...
...lower tax bracket. Home mortgage deductions amount to $25 billion annually, state and local taxes $22 billion, charitable contributions $13 billion. Many of these tax benefits are so widely accepted that a true flat tax seems impossible to enact. Even modifying any of the existing provisions is certain to stir resistance from those who would be hurt. For the individual taxpayer, notes retiring New York Congressman Barber Conable, "if the bottom line is that his taxes went up, that is not reform. That is fraud...
Reagan in this campaign knew where his applause lines would come. He could reach the people and stir them. Mondale tried-but failed until too late...
Reagan also was mistaken about a CIA manual giving advice to contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua on how to assassinate Sandinista officials, hire "criminals" to kill contras who would then be presented as martyrs, and stir up mob violence. The President said the manual had been written by a CIA contract employee "in Nicaragua" (he hastily corrected himself to say "in that area," meaning Central America) and censored in Washington, but "some way or other" about a dozen copies with the offending passages got out to the contras. He wrongly remembered what briefers had told him just...
...Marsden arrived on the scene as a person interested in comets," Gingerich recalls. "At the time, there was a bright comet which caused an enormous stir, and he was on deck to help out. At that time I felt it was reasonable for him to take over." Gingerich remained on hand as an associate director...