Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government

Reagan calls for an end to the years of spendthrift Big Government

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Reagan calls for an end to the years of spendthrift Big Government

There are moments in the affairs of nations that historians, with the snug granny glasses of hindsight, adjudge climactic: the end of one era, the beginning of another, a true shift of the tectonic plates of society. Often such events largely escape the notice of those living at the time; significance dawns slowly, meaning comes piecemeal. Whether or not what Ronald Reagan asked of the U.S. last week in his televised address to the assembled houses of Congress will some day...

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