Ronald Reagan's new beginning was not born, like the New Deal, from chaos or, like the Great Society, from the Texas-size ambition of a man who thought there was no limit to American cando. But Reagan's vision was inspired by a little of each. He saw clear signals of profound economic stress ahead; he also carried in his head, for nearly two decades, the conviction that Government need not be so big and so expensive and he could do something to change it. A calamity loomed. Reagan supplied the religion. His experts...
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