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Conservatives in the Senate similarly talked about preventing Tennessee's Howard Baker, the current minority leader, from becoming majority leader in the new Senate. A major complaint against Baker: he voted for the Panama Canal treaties. But Nevada's Paul Laxalt, overnight one of Washington's most powerful men, promptly squelched that minirebellion...
...again chaired Reagan's presidential campaign committee and again nominated him for President. Now he is getting his reward by being allowed to put into effect a unique plan he has been urging on Reagan for 18 months. Although he holds no formal position of leadership among Republicans, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, 58, has suddenly become one of the most powerful men in Washington, with privileges and responsibilities that are without precedent in any relationship between a President and a legislator. He is scheduled to be the connecting link between the White House and the Congress...
...world. Labor, management, skills, materials, necessity, money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff...
Political Consultant Stuart Spencer is returning to private business in California, but is expected to retain a chair in Reagan's kitchen Cabinet. So is Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's talented pollster. Also likely to be called on for political advice is Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, who is a close friend. Three women are slated for Cabinet or sub-Cabinet positions. Two are Republicans: Anne Armstrong, former co-chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee and Ambassador to Britain; and Elizabeth Dole, wife of Senator Robert Dole and a former member of the Federal Trade Commission. The Democrat is Jeane...
Other tax-cutting proposals patterned after Proposition 13 were defeated in Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Utah and South Dakota. Ohio voters, however, endorsed new methods of computing property taxes on homes and farms that allow for inflation, and Missouri voters approved an amendment to tie all state tax increases to the federal Consumer Price Index...