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...spending desires of the other. A minimum tax could accommodate the Senate's desire to keep up defense spending and the House's interest in maintaining social programs. A major obstacle to this scenario: Reagan's vow that any attempt to raise taxes would prompt a veto and "make...
...aggressive Persian Gulf policy on Jan. 23, 1980, by the next morning the New York Times had dubbed it "the Carter Doctrine." President Reagan saw fit to bury his doctrine in his 1985 State of the Union address beneath the balanced budget amendment, school prayer and the line-item veto. That he decided to make his a footnote is as much a tribute to Mr. Reagan's prudence as to his modesty. Truly new ideas--what Democrats lie awake at night dreaming of--are as risky as they are rare. This one has already precipitated a storm...
...have my veto pen drawn and ready for any tax increase that Congress might even think of sending up. And I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead--make...
...United Nations, the U.S. used its veto to defeat a Lebanese resolution condemning Israel's actions in southern Lebanon. The U.S. argued that the resolution did not take proper notice of the Israeli withdrawal and the cycle of domestic Lebanese violence. The veto angered Arabs in Lebanon and elsewhere, and spurred renewed threats against American lives and property. Security was tightened at American embassies in many Arab capitals, particularly Beirut. With the American naval vessels standing by offshore, the U.S. issued its announcement on Thursday that most diplomats were being withdrawn temporarily, leaving only a handful in Beirut, including Ambassador...
White House Spokesman Larry Speakes grumbled that the committee is "marching in the wrong direction." Reagan, he said, is "prepared to go to the people" to get Congress to change course. The fiery language of the farm veto presumably gave a first taste of what the President might...