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No one is better at toasting the good times than Ronald Reagan, and few other Presidents have invested quite so much political capital in doing so. If Reagan really intends to lead the nation into a second American revolution of hope and opportunity, he will have to join the budget debate and other battles that were bursting around him last week. The President had earned his right to a birthday evening of soaring spirits and celebratory prose. But birthdays come only once a year.