Well possibly without tha sympathy from the assassination attempt, he possibly could not get this tax reform bill pass through Congress
Yes, the Reagan team, and Reagan himself, over-reached.Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!': Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life
James Baker, with Steve Fiffer, 2006.
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‘ . . Tip O’Neill threw in the towel before the climactic May 7 House vote. “I can read Congress,” he said. “They go with the will of the people. And the will of the people is to go along with the president.” . . ’
‘ . . Then we shot ourselves in the foot.
‘The issue was Social Security, . . ’
Given that market pressure (petroleum and real estate) would have curbed inflation in 1983, he would get re-elected in 1984. How much tax reform? Hard to say, but much of the supply-side part would probably be stopped.Well possibly without tha sympathy from the assassination attempt, he possibly could not get this tax reform bill pass through Congress
Reagan wrote a heartfelt letter to Brezhnev. But then Secretary of State Al Haig worried that it would misunderstood and wrote his own letter. Both letters ended up being sent.Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, Del Quentin Wilber, 2011, page 218:
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‘ . . . Never one to presume that he understood God's intentions, Reagan later speculated that he'd been granted his wish to live so that he could help mitigate the risk of Armageddon. . . ’