Word: programing
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That, however, was the only touch of playacting; otherwise the drama of the speech came from its subject and context. Both were important enough to justify fully the President's deep concern with sounding the right tone. His task was to begin rallying public support for a program designed to jolt the U.S. out of what he called "the worst economic mess since the Great Depression." Though details will not be spelled out until next week, enough is known already to make it obvious that the program marks a drastic change in national direction. It combines slashes in federal...
...speech was only one part of the biggest lobbying effort on a domestic issue to be launched from the White House in years. After Reagan spells out his program in what amounts to a State of the Union address on Feb. 18, the drive will begin to look like a revival of last fall's election campaign. Vice President George Bush and several Cabinet members are expected to go on tour plugging the program; Reagan himself may hit the road for a few days of speechmaking. His kitchen cabinet-close associates from California who have no official positions...
Meanwhile, the White House is consulting leaders of special-interest groups, urging them to suspend judgment on the program until they see the full details, rather than mobilize now to fend off budget cuts that might hurt them. Reagan met separately last week in the Cabinet Room with a dozen big-city mayors, the 18 members of the Congressional Black Caucus and 30 leaders of farm organizations. He told them that the Administration intends to spread the pain of spending reductions equitably across U.S. society. Though all were apprehensive, most left taking the wait-and-see attitude that the President...
...goes the list of potential cuts: the black book suggests reductions in federal aid to the arts, in support for public TV, in mass transit, in postal subsidies and in the space program, even though both Reagan and Stockman are ardent space buffs. Not even the most popular federal programs are spared. In the case of Social Security, the Administration would leave basic retirement benefits untouched. But it is considering scrapping the $122 minimum monthly benefit to retirees who have paid very little into the system and payments to students whose parents have died, as well as reductions in disability...
...which casts doubt over the other fundamental part of Reagan's economic program: sharp cuts in personal and business taxes. In the President's view, taxes are holding back business growth and feeding inflation quite as much as the explosive growth of federal spending. In his TV speech, he reiterated his familiar pledge to recommend a 10% slash in income tax rates in each of the next three years, plus more generous depreciation allowances for business, and insisted that the reductions must not be held up to await the outcome of the congressional budget debate...