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Still, the idea of the meeting was intriguing to Ronald Reagan. Mid-term elections are coming up and the Republican Party's prospects for maintaining control of the Senate are not commensurate with Reagan's personal popularity. The GOP has already tried to buy off the nation's farmers with a new $50 billion boondoggle. Now the Administration wants to shore up the President's and the party's image as arms controllers...
Campaigning for the presidency in 1980, Reagan supported a return to Volcker's anti-inflationary policy. During the mid-term elections of 1982, when the side effects of the Fed's draconian measures were most pronounced, Reagan's motto was "Stay the Course...
...majority in the House of Representatives, which the Democrats currently dominate by 266 to 167, with two seats vacant. Indeed, the number of new Republican seats that the optimists deem possible, around 20, would not even make up the 26-member loss that the party suffered in the 1982 mid-term election. Political Analyst Kevin Phillips says that most Republicans realistically expect to pick up only about six additional House seats...
...survive for four years. If the President could not make the necessary changes to restore unity and coherence to his foreign policy, then it would be in the country's interests to have another Secretary. I suggested that the best time for my departure would be after the mid-term elections in November, to minimize the political impact...
After two years, few visible signs of the recovery emerged. But the swindlers kept on working, and hardly anyone spoke out of fear of the repurcussions. At the mid-term elections, the emperor suffered relatively few losses, maintaining the upper hand in the Senate. So the swindlers asked for more leverage--larger tax cuts, tighter money supply. The emperor complied...