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President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime
By Lou Cannon

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' . . . As Stockman put it, Baker "thought of Social Security as Ronald Reagan's Achilles heel and was determined to keep the president as far away from it as possible." . . . '
Yes, a case can certainly be made that Social Security was Reagan's Achilles heel.

And so, if Reagan flares out and crashes in '76 and isn't the frontrunner in '80, who is and how is the trajectory of American politics different?
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