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Packaging—Tactical Effects, 59 -60, 255 -58, 294 -95, 366 , 401 -4.
See also Continuing Resolution, Reconciliation
Packard, David, 234
Packwood, Robert, 401 , 408 , 430 , 452 , 468 , 472 , 479 , 484 -98, 546
Palmer, John L., 333 , 342 -43, 527
Panetta, Leon, 43 , 51 , 115 , 124 , 139 , 141 , 146 , 160 , 226 , 244 , 295 , 365 , 373 , 375 , 387 , 413 , 429 , 448 , 451 , 520 , 567 -69, 655
Partee, Charles, 58
Pearlman, Ronald, 475
Pechman, Joseph, 28 , 473 , 503
Penner, Rudolph, 206 , 387 , 439 , 523 , 526 , 528
Pepper, Claude, 311 , 318 -19, 322 -25, 329 , 344 , 377 , 434
Peterson, Peter, 315 , 359 -60
Phillips, Kevin, 355
Pickle, J. J. (Jake), 133 -34, 323 -25, 401
Pitts, Billy, 146
Policy making, bias in, 534 -35, 551 -57
Political Stratum, 546 -47
See also Press, The; Responsible (or respectable) opinion; Responsibility of politicians
Poole, Ithiel, 543
Populist Conservative Tax Coalition, 474 -75
Power of the Purse, 181 , 278 -81, 287 , 292 , 307
before 1980, 1 , 5 -6, 8 , 12 -13, 17
and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, 449 , 451 -52, 455 , 457 -59, 509 -11
and 1981 reconciliation, 138 -39, 145 -46, 149
See also Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Presidential Power:
control of Executive Branch, 89 , 102 , 105 , 358 , 623 n.12;
"mandate"/honeymoon, 66 -67, 72 -73, 88 , 95 , 130 , 208
mobilizing public, 95 -96, 112 , 115 , 118 , 128 , 130 -31, 147 , 176 -78, 180 , 224 , 241 , 257 , 367 , 433 , 478 -79, 496 , 502
personal credit, 290 , 407 , 436 , 438 , 483
president's budget, 7 -8, 11 -13, 286 -87, 293 , 382 -83, 387 -88, 394
veto, 10 , 51 -52, 289 -92, 368 -69, 372 , 374 , 378 , 408 -10, 452 -53
See also Administration, Reagan
Press, The, xv , xvi , 19 , 23 , 30 -31, 76 -77, 187 , 194 , 198 , 205 , 222 , 289 , 301 , 355 , 413 , 421 , 481 , 486 , 492
See also Media; Responsible (or respectable) opinion
Primus, Wendell, 446
Priorities, dissensus over:
and Budget Act of 1974, 11 -12, 16 -17
and Gramm Rudman, 449 -50, 455 -56
Reagan loses the center, 360 , 366 , 391 -400, 422 , 424 -25
shift within budget totals, 291 -94, 374
See also Cleavages in the House; "Fair Shares"; Fairness issue; Spending cuts packages
Procedural collapse, 382 -85, 388 , 392 , 393 , 395 , 399 -400, 405 -7
See also Fakery; Gramm-Rudman-Hollings; Procedure vs. substance
Procedure vs. substance, 91 , 116 , 137 -38, 141 , 215 , 231 , 246 -48, 282 -84, 296 -97, 307 -8, 370 -72, 396 , 402 , 436 , 508 -9, 513 -14, 565
See also Procedural collapse
Productivity, 24 -25, 27 -28, 34 -35, 52 -53, 163 -64, 259 , 352 -53, 570 , 613 n.1
See also Economy—ideas about; Investment; Responsible (or respectable) opinion
Pryor, David, 114 , 120 , 371 , 481 , 488
Public Citizen Litigation Group, 510
Public Interest, The, xvii , 488 , 534 -35, 543 , 545 -47, 557 -61, 569 , 572
and authority, xvii , 82 -83, 558 -61, 574 -75
and Deficit reduction, 232
"General Interest" politics, 431
and Justice, 46 -48, 191 , 198 , 210
See also Democracy, Special interests
Public opinion:
anti-deficit/anti-spending matrix, 20 -21, 68 -70, 113 -14, 120 , 425 -26
Balanced Budget Amendment, 275 -76
Carter's economy, 19 -21, 50 -51, 56 , 67 -69
defense spending, 68 (chart), 72 , 115 -18, 361 , 367 , 394 -95
deficits and solutions, 423 -26, 433 -34, 531 , 539 , 567
governing, 539
mandates, 66 -73, 116 , 422 -26
Reagan hard core, 115 -18, 205
recession and unemployment, 21 -22, 204 -5, 235 , 241 , 299 -300
taxes, 68 (chart), 69 -70, 105 , 115 -18, 167 , 176 -77, 180 , 257 -58, 333 , 419 , 477 -78, 481 , 487 -88, 494 -95,
uncertainty, 427
See also Elections