THE ECONOMY: Something for (Almost) Everybody

THE ECONOMY Something for (Almost) Everybody

As Jimmy Carter, his top economic advisers and Democratic congressional leaders emerged from a four-hour meeting in Plains last week, their smiles and banter clearly gave them away. They had not only reached agreement on what to do about the economy, they were quite pleased with what they had wrought. "I've been in Congress for 24 years," House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill exulted, "and I don't ever recall anything of this natureĀ—the leadership coming and having a dialogue with the President in regard to his pending messages and...

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