For the Record
From Wall Street to Washington
by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan
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Budget & Economy
Donald Regan: Amortize government purchases like homebuyers do.
Donald Regan: Economy needs steady, predictable monetary policy.
Donald Regan: Deficits don't matter, s long as economy is growing.
John Boehner: Home loans were source of bank crisis.
Milton Friedman: Erratic monetary policy is greatest threat to economy.
Phil Gramm: Gramm-Rudman: mandate balanced budget & deficit reduction.
Ronald Reagan: Signed Gramm-Rudman to mandate balanced budget.
Ronald Reagan: 1985: $68B in spending cuts; but SDI funding doubled.
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Foreign Policy
Ronald Reagan: Democracy & market economy result in a better life.
Ronald Reagan: Reagan-Gorbachev meetings based on personal contact.
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Homeland Security
Donald Regan: Iran-Contra scandal: consequences for Israel too.
Donald Regan: USSR motivated to reduce strategic nukes by staggering cost.
Ronald Reagan: OpEd: Reagan no part of diverting Iran-Contra funds.
Ronald Reagan: OpEd: Sought nuclear treaty as legacy toward world peace.
Ronald Reagan: Policy of openness to deal with Iran-Contra scandal.
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Principles & Values
Donald Regan: Resigned as a result of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Ronald Reagan: OpEd: hands-off management has inevitable disasters.
Ronald Reagan: Scale of re-election victory meant mandate on policies.
Ronald Reagan: Trusted his aides to act on his intentions, not his orders.
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Tax Reform
Donald Regan: 10% tax reduction each year for three years.
Donald Regan: Lower taxes for all, by eliminating special privileges.
Ronald Reagan: Tax reform's goal: replace incomprehensible system.
Ronald Reagan: 1986 Tax Reform: reduce top rate from 50% to 28%.
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War & Peace
Donald Regan: OpEd: Goal of strategic nuke talks was to keep talking.
Ronald Reagan: OpEd: Iran-Contra contradicted "Never deal with terrorists".
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The above quotations are from For the Record
From Wall Street to Washington
by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan.
Books by and about Cabinet Members:
- Between Worlds, by Gov. Bill Richardson, Secretary of Commerce-designee
- Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis, by Sen. Tom Daschle, Secretary of Health & Human Services-designee
- Dreams from My Father:, by Sen. Barack Obama, President-elect
- It Takes A Village, by Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State-designee
- Leading by Example, by Gov. Bill Richardson, Secretary of Commerce-designee
- Like No Other Time: The Two Years That Changed America, by Sen. Tom Daschle, Secretary of Health & Human Services-designee
- Living History, by Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State-designee
- Profiles In Courage, by John F. Kennedy
- Profiles In Courage For Our Time, by Caroline Kennedy, including chapter on Rep. Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor-designee
- Promises to Keep, by Sen. Joe Biden, Vice President-elect
- The Audacity of Hope, by Sen. Barack Obama, President-elect
- No Higher Honor, by Condoleezza Rice (2011)
- My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, by Condoleezza Rice (2012)
- The Plan: Big Ideas for Change in America, by Rahm Emanuel
- The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless, by Naftali Bendavid; profiling Rep. Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff
- For the Record, by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan
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