THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Carter v. Carter on the Budget

It could be that in the new budget and the economic and tax messages that came with it. Jimmy Carter has delivered a statement about his leadership that is clearer than anything else he has tried.

His answers to questions seem to change from day to day, his big speeches to drift away by the next week. But the budget is hard fact printed in cold type. You can feel it and rime it, a 7-lb. 10-oz.. 2,050-page document between stolid beige covers. You can profile a good portion of this nation by...

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