THE PRESIDENCY: Ready to Pledge Allegiance

Ronald Reagan will not only be "chairman of the board" of the U.S. In a sense, he will lead a kind of multinational enterprise the likes of which this world has never imagined. From Tokyo to Turin, business executives who have helped fashion economies heavily dependent upon international trade gave their support to Reagan, not a few of them half jesting that they are so bound to the U.S. that they should be allowed to vote. Now they wait with hope and considerable caution for an executive reorganization in the "home office" in Washington that, with luck and a...

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