Word: undoing
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When James Watt was signed on as Interior Secretary, he told the President exactly what policies he wanted to pursue. Federal lands must be opened for development of energy and mineral resources, said Watt, pledging to undo "50 years or so of bad Government." Said a delighted Reagan: "Sic 'em." And Watt did, promptly becoming the most ideologically controversial member of the Cabinet. As he puts it: "I was brought in to yell down a new chain of command on environmental issues. I yelled, and to my surprise, I was obeyed." He proposed offering for lease 1 billion...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill has frequently grumbled that Reagan threatens to undo all the social good achieved since the New Deal. The argument is political grandstanding. As the President noted at his press conference, "Twenty-two million people were eligible for food stamps before the reform-some 21 million will still be eligible today ... about 40 million individuals are still provided with over $50 billion in cash and in in-kind benefits in eight major public assistance programs other than Social Security." Even the more heavily trimmed programs, like school lunches, appear to be in surprisingly good shape...
...live in freedom," said Reagan, turning to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "Let us remember that whether we be Christian or Jew or Muslim, we are all children of Abraham, all children of the same God." But now, Reagan warned, "forces of aggression, lawlessness and tyranny . . . seek to undo the work of generations of our people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly moved Begin, "From your earliest days, you were acquainted with hunger and sorrow, but as you've written...
That was what the wedding morning coverage had to undo, and this...
...governments, in the U.S. Congress, and even within the American Jewish community-criticized Israel's role in the latest round of fighting. The essential questions were posed by Charles Percy, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "At what point does [Israel's] pre-emptive strategy undo all our efforts toward peace? At what point does the preemptive strategy weaken Israel's political and diplomatic position in the world...