Dutch: on Government Reform

Softened on "Gov't isn't the solution; gov't is the problem"

In his State of the Union address to Congress in January 1983, he seemed to be abandoning the conservative economic philosophy that had brought him to power. He called for bipartisan, emergency action to save Social Security from bankruptcy, even if that meant increased taxes. He cited Franklin Roosevelt's believe that "the great public is interested more in government than in politics," to the dismay of libertarians who remembers his old mantra, government isn't the solution, government is the problem.

Only those veteran observers who remembered his willingness to compromise, when necessary, as president of the Screen Actors Guild and Governor of California, were reassured that Reagan knew what he was doing.

Source: Dutch, by Edmund Morris, p.469-470 Jan 15, 1983

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