Reagan’s push for smaller government faces cuts and backlash
The piece weighs Reagan’s plan to shrink government after five decades, warning that a 12 percent across the board cut with military protection risks Congress’ resistance. It argues social program reductions are true cuts and urges careful deliberation of military and budget effects, noting public demand for restrained spending.
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Reagan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Congress
Debate over ABM protection for MX missiles in hardened silos
The article critiques Sen. Paul Laxalt’s Meet the Press proposal to place MX missiles in concrete silos with ABMs nearby. It argues the plan is impractical under the 1972 ABM treaty and risks escalating the nuclear arms race, advocating instead for MX deployment and caution toward ABMs.
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NBC
Paul Laxalt
Nevada
North Dakota
Montana
Sen. Laxalt
Minuteman
Russia
Moscow
Citizens press Reagan on winter aid and social security timing
A Letter to The Gazette argues for earlier Social Security increases to fund fuel, grain, and feed reserves for the elderly. The writer accuses the president of delaying increases to save the system, questions welfare and refugee aid, and cites personal work history and low wages as context for demanding stronger support for home citizens and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reagan
Bank rate relief after protests roils mortgage fears
A Buffalo bank reversed a plan to raise mortgage rates from 8 to 14 percent amid protests by about 900 mortgagees. The author cites a similar Elkader case where a three year renewable loan rose from 9 to 19 percent, then to 18 percent, with a $160 monthly rise. The letter criticizes banks for claiming to serve the community while shifting costs to borrowers.
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Buffalo, N.Y
Elkader
Farm program critique and moral guidance from a 1980s radio piece
The speaker outlines a hypothetical farm plan with weather as control, 100 percent parity prices, and meat supply shifts backed by withholding via the National Farmers Organization. Also urged are moral reflections urging readers to hate no one, forgive all, and seek God, with ad hominem cautions about groups like the Moral Majority and KKK.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nazi Party
KKK
Great Society rematch and budget battle in 1982
A political parallel to boxing frames Reagan as the champion facing a 1982 rematch with the Great Society era. The piece notes polls showing mixed approval, liberal establishment resistance, and taxpayer outrage over social programs. It argues Democrats will be in the champ's corner in 1982.
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Reagan
Washington Post
David Broder
Herbert Hoover
Washington
Tip O'Neill
Labor Dept Abuse of Power Provokes Outcry Over Inspector General
The piece recounts clashes at the Labor Department involving acting deputy inspector general Frank A. Yeager and later cases in the inspector general’s office. It notes investigations by Gamble and Mangieri into pyramid schemes and coercion cases, alleged harassment, and calls for reform under new inspector general Thomas F. McBride.
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Frank A. Yeager
Labor Department
Interoffice
Department
William R. Gamble III
Nicholas J. Mangieri Jr
Inspector General’s Office
Gamble
Miami
Mangieri
District of Columbia
Inspector General's Office
Thomas F. McBride
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Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Great Society
Sugar Ray Leonard
Thomas Hearns
Leonard
Hearns
Tip O’neill
White House
Ronald Reagan
Tip
Newsweek
Yankelovich
Time
Yeager
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Andre Gide
Robert Walters Newspaper Enterprise Association
Teamsters Union
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Government Accountability Project
Los Angeles
FBI
Inspector General’s
Utah
California
Alaska
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