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Unlike Lincoln, Reagan does not seem tired inside. He still rejects Carter's notion of a paralyzing national malaise. The world does not view him as weak, though it often regards him as stubborn and ignorant. The prevailing wisdom among the fallible Washington seers is that Reagan faces more hazards in his third year than any recent President. His programs have not worked so far. An international banking crisis looms, along with rising fears about nuclear...
Budget battles heat up late in the month between the White House and Congress, and charges fly. Capitol Hill Democrats call the President stubborn and unrealistic. He declares, in response, that opposition to his budget--"and to the Peacekeeper. Jim Watt and Nancy"--is "Communist-inspired." He does not elaborate...
Many citizens count the President's policies as the last hope for economic stability in the U.S. and are thankful that he is stubborn...
...Bank of the Jordan River. In the pursuit of that dream, Begin got Israel into the most controversial war in its history and raised tensions between the U.S. and Israeli governments to a level unprecedented in more than a quarter of a century. Yet that did not diminish the stubborn Prime Minister's resolve. "No one will set for us the borders of Eretz Yisrael," he shouted in the Knesset after President Reagan proposed in September that the West Bank should in the future be linked to Jordan. Using the biblical names for the occupied territory, as he always does...
Nixon is careful to avoid outright criticism of Reagan, partly because he thinks it would only aggravate the President's stubborn streak and partly because Reagan was always loyal and supportive toward me when I was in office." In effect, however, Nixon is refuting a view prevalent in the Reagan Administration that the U.S. might some day be able to bring the Soviet Union to its knees with economic blockades and military pressure. He believes the troubles afflicting the Soviet system make this the time not to isolate the Soviet leadership, but to engage it "at the highest level...