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Article: He sees frightful day of reckoning
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 1986
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By the end of 1984, David A. Stockman had concluded that he and
others in the White House were leading the nation down the road to
long-term economic peril. But many of those close to the president
still were maintaining that their fiscal programs would work. The
division of opinion meant the end of Stockman's days as budget
director, as he outlines here in an excerpt from The Triumph of
Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed.
"You ain't seen nothing yet."
The White House made that its official campaign slogan for 1984.
When it did, I knew that my own days were numbered, and that even the
reluctant loyalty I had maintained during the long battle to reverse
the president's tax ...