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New Image for Reagan Aims to Shore Up Public Support
The article details shifts in President Reagan's approach to politics as advisers urge a more compassionate, peaceable image. It notes conciliatory moves such as inviting Brezhnev, appointing two Black aides, talking up urban aid, and proposing a fairness tax package to appeal to critics amid nuclear policy pressures and public anxiety.
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Washington
Leonid I. Brezhnev
White House
Chicago
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Reagan Cabinet
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
David R. Gergen
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
United Nations
Moscow
Melvin L. Bradley
Wendell Wilkie Gunn
Fort Wayne
Ind
James A. Baker 3d
Congress