Washington debates a uniform drinking age of 21
For Ronald Reagan, it was a rare change of heart on a matter of principle, and an even more uncommon public acknowledgment of that about-face. "Some may feel that my decision is at odds with my philosophical viewpoint that state problems should involve state solutions," the President said to a high school audience last week in Oradell, N.J. However, he went on, "in a case like this, where the problem is so clear-cut, then I have no misgivings about a judicious use of federal inducements to encourage...
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