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Rahn, Richard, 165 -66
Rangel, Charles, 401 , 476 , 494 , 500
Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), 36 -37
Rauch, Jonathan, 444
Ray, Robert, 243
Reagan, Nancy, 87
Reagan, Ronald—assassination attempt, 117 -18
Reagan, Ronald—moral economy, 73 -75, 80 , 107 , 119 , 170 , 182 , 197 , 206 , 370 , 385 -87, 413 , 430 , 438 , 448 , 468 -75, 488 , 496 , 502 -3, 508 -9, 563 , 566
defense as priority, 77 , 108 , 188 , 196 -97, 432 , 444 , 527
deficit identified with spending only, 185 , 193 , 196 -97
monetary policy, 189 -90
rejection of conventional economics, 190 -91, 269 -74, 292 , 355 -58
Social Security, 134 , 177 , 435
See also Children's allowance theory; Economists; Economy—ideas about; Reaganomics; Responsible (or respectable) opinion
Reagan, Ronald—rhetoric, 54 -55, 95 -96, 111 -12, 130 -31, 149 , 171 , 177 -78, 180 , 197 , 203 , 223 -26, 238 , 255 , 257 , 277 -78, 298 -99, 370 , 433 , 445 , 477 , 480
Reagan, Ronald—tactics, 74 , 95 , 96 , 111 , 119 -20, 121 , 134 , 147 , 158 , 160 -61, 185 , 189 , 192 , 196 -97, 206 , 301 -2, 322 , 356 -57, 386 -87, 422 -23, 435 , 478 , 483 , 503 , 565 -66
Reaganomics, 71 -73, 82 -85, 180 , 220 , 225 -26, 261 , 267 -74, 299 -300, 312 , 352 , 355 , 563 -65
See also Reagan, Ronald—moral economy
Reconciliation: "abuses," 61 , 144 -45, 153 , 295 , 462 , 598 n.59
collapse in 1983, 371 -72, 376 , 378
cover for committees, 256 , 372
discretionary authorizations, 125 , 248 , 391
fiscal year 1981, 59 -61
fiscal year 1986, 514
form and House leadership, 294 -96
process reversal, 1984, 383 , 395 -400
See also Control procedures; Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA); Spending cuts packages; Tax increases—successful; Tax increases—unsuccessful
Regan, Donald, 85 -86, 96 , 101 , 119 , 129 , 133 , 160 -61, 165 -66, 170 , 173 , 175 , 184 -86, 192 -93, 196 -97, 205 , 220 -22, 235 -36, 250 , 254 , 257 , 261 , 276 , 349 , 357 -58, 382 , 385 , 388 -90, 429 , 436 , 438 , 443 -44, 473 -77, 491 , 501 , 520 , 532 , 538 , 546
Rehnquist, William, 502
Responsibility of politicians, xvi , 139 , 174 , 189 -90, 205 -6, 216 -17, 226 -27, 231 , 246 -48, 308 -9, 320 , 326 -30, 344 , 348 -49, 369 -71, 373 , 431 , 435 , 451 , 472 , 493 , 496 -97, 501 , 503 -5, 539 , 543 -45
extremism of the center, xvii , 64 -65, 284 , 380 -81, 426 -28, 439 , 558 -61, 574 -75
See also Balanced Budget ideal, Responsible (or respectable) opinion; Senate Republicans; Social Security
Responsible (or respectable) opinion, xv , xvi , 20 , 29 -31, 52 , 55 , 64 -65, 82 , 84 , 189 -90, 206 -7, 225 -26, 303 , 349 -52, 359 -60, 413 , 426 -28, 486 , 493 -94, 519 -20, 538 , 545 -48, 564 , 632 n.41
See also Balanced Budget ideal; Economists; Financial markets; Press, The
Reuss, Henry, 304
Reynolds, Alan, 474
Richardson, Elliot, 88
Roberts, Paul Craig, 86 , 98 , 100 , 220 , 235 , 474
Roberts, Stephen V., 496
Robertson, Norman, 184
Rogers, David, 516
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, 478
Rose, Richard, 540
Rostenkowski, Dan, 92 -94, 112 , 158 -63, 166 , 171 , 174 -75, 178 , 235 -36, 238 , 253 , 255 , 302 , 315 , 318 -19, 324 , 326 , 362 , 365 , 369 , 376 -77, 380 , 390 , 401 ,
427 , 446 , 450 , 461 , 478 -84, 491 -93, 496 , 507 , 514 , 519 , 568
Rowney, Edward, 109
Rudman, Warren, 427 , 439 , 442 -43, 447 , 450 , 512 -13, 559
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, 539