DEFINING ISSUES IN AMERICAN POLITICS
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Sunday, July 3, 1994
A President or Governor can occasionally make or break a career on the basis of one preeminent initiative that becomes known as his or her legislative centerpiece. Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He staked pretty much everything on the across-the-board cuts in marginal income tax rates that he had promised in his 1980 campaign.
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