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...touches were still being put to both documents over the weekend. But all last week Reagan was in effect rehearsing themes and lines for the two big messages: at the news session, at a fund-raising dinner in Chicago for Republican Senator Charles Percy and at a kind of mid-term pep rally in Washington for his political appointees. The sum of his remarks suggests that he may be about to moderate his harshly ideological stance just enough, and just in time, to stave off disaster...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The Reagan Administration [is] ripping itself apart. . . the President and his closest associates seem to lack the political energy and the grasp of detail required for a mid-term renewal...
Whatever Baker's motives, he has focused attention on the Administration's vulnerability. There are omens like the Gallup polls that show Reagan as far less popular at mid-term than other recent Presidents. "Baker believes this is going to be a very tough year for the President and that he will lose his leadership edge," says a White House aide, who adds, "There's a real smell in this town that Reagan is not going to run." The President himself, despite the image of vultures circling the Oval Office, remains characteristically easygoing about the fuss...
...occasion NBC has also been harshly judgmental. Its portrait of the President at mid-term included an appraisal of Reaganomics by Correspondent Mike Jensen, who came close to calling Reagan's stewardship a failure. Jensen summed up: "It soon became apparent that something was wrong. Business got steadily worse. Factories closed. Layoffs. Bankruptcies. All we can really count on is that President Reagan will be guided by an optimism that not everyone shares...
Whatever the commission recommends, the task of getting agreement between President Ronald Reagan and Congress will be made no easier by the passions aroused in the mid-term election campaign, during which many Democrats accused Republicans of plotting to cut present Social Security benefits. The G.O.P. resentment raised by that charge echoed in Reagan's news conference last week. The President complained that elderly people "have been frightened to death" and assured them that "I know of no one, and especially me, who would support" any outright cut in benefits...