Shopping Cart

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Visit Store
Change Font Size
Change Font Size

Shopping Cart

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Visit Store

May

05

1982

May 05, 1982



Choose a date:

Diary Entry - 05/05/1982

Wednesday, May 5, 1982

View the President's Schedule

Never got to this journal until today (Fri). Wed. things turned up. We got together with Sen. Pete Dominici’s Budget committee & worked out a compromise budget pckg. It passed out of committee by a straight 11 to 9 party line vote. It’s a good budget and will trim the projected deficits down to $106 bil. next year, $69 bil. in ’84 and $39 bil. in ’85. The Demos. are screaming & lying like bandits charging us with cutting Soc. Security—we aren’t touching Soc. Security. There is a ray of hope in the Falklands. The U.K. has lost a destroyer but now both sides are talking a cease fire. The only hitch is—it should be accompanied by a mutual withdrawal of forces & the Argentines dont want to do this. So far however the shooting has stopped. We’ve definitely regained the initiative on the domestic scene. Fri. met with John Towers Committee & some house members of the Armed Services Committee. Good meeting & I think we’re on track with the defense budget. This afternoon went horsebacking at Quantico with Bill Clark & Paul Laxalt.