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...learned their views in advance and worked out a coordinated presentation. Basically, the Representatives and Senators told Reagan that he must propose a reduction in military spending and some kind of tax changes in order to present a budget that Congress would even consider seriously. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, made the deepest impression on the President. Laxalt advocated a standby tax increase and some kind of spending hold-down that, he warned Reagan, would have to include reductions in planned military outlays...
Well, as you may know we have an independent effort going on in North Carolina. Uh, the law forbids me to consult with him [Mr. Reagan] and it's been an awkward situation, I've had to, sort of, talk indirectly to Paul Laxalt [Reagan's campaign chairman] and hope that he would pass along... I think the messages have gotten through all right...
Scarcely had the opening-day ceremonies ended when six leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate visited the White House for breakfast with Ronald Reagan. Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas summarized their message: "We told the President that we could not live with those big deficits." Paul Laxalt of Nevada, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, described the red-ink figure to reporters as "a little terrifying...
Because so much grim business is conducted in this city during the week, Redskin losses on Sunday are ominous events. On Moseley's right leg sways the mood of the Government. Last week, when Moseley broke Garo Yepremian's record of 20 straight field goals, Senators Paul Laxalt and John Warner hurried from the game after the first quarter to vote to keep the Republic going, but were back for the finish. Moseley's third field goal of the day with four seconds left beat the New York Giants, 15-14, and made the record...
...proposal to shift the final 10% installment of his three-year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican Senator in November, thereby maintaining the G.O.P.'s eight-vote margin in the Senate, but he had aroused...