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...following year and $30 billion in 1988. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger adamantly insists on a $333 billion request for 1986, which would be a 7% increase after adjustment for inflation. At a Thursday meeting in the White House, House G.O.R Leader Robert Michel and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt got into what a Reagan aide described as a "heated" exchange with Weinberger. The lawmakers' point: Congress will not buy civilian spending cuts of anything like the depth the Administration desires unless the Pentagon shares in the sacrifice...
Says Reagan's campaign chairman, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt: "In modern political history, no one has ever had a firmer base of support over a matter of months. It has been a wall of granite." A Mondale strategist offers the same fundamental analysis. Says he: "The President's favorability rating in the polls stayed at about 60% throughout the election. The voters stayed...
...evident desire to answer every assault on his record; his meandering, overly detailed responses had cost him points two weeks earlier in Louisville. Apart from the rehearsals, the President held briefing sessions with such advisers as Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, longtime Reagan Adviser Stuart Spencer and White House Aides Baker and Michael Deaver...
After listening to both candidates, B'nai B'rith delegates voted unanimously to oppose all forms of organized prayer in high schools, and called on Government to be "neutral" in religious matters. In an obvious swipe at Laxalt's letter, the resolution also voiced "opposition to attempts to claim 'God's authority' in campaigns for political office." Many of the delegates contended that Reagan had stirred new fears at least among Jews, who, as members of a religious minority, are extremely sensitive to the possibility of Government interference in religion...
...Republican Convention, fundamentalist ministers were conspicuous. There was the letter by Senator Laxalt, suggesting that God wants Americans to vote Republican and that the Christian thing to do is re-elect Ronald Reagan. The President himself suggested as much. It all amounts to saying that what is desirable is the establishment of a Christian religion. What made matters worse was the implicit assertion that these views alone are true and have God's blessing, and that those who oppose them are not just misguided, but sinful, intolerant and unpatriotic as well...