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Ronald Reagan: It's never been any thought on the part of any of us that after 50 years of built-in, structural deficit spending…

On the recordJanuary 7, 1985
It's never been any thought on the part of any of us that after 50 years of built-in, structural deficit spending, there’s no way that you can gear segments of the society to government doing many of these things and then just pull the rug out from them all at once.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Interview With Burl Osborne and Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News

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