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Radio 4,27 Aug 1982,14 mins

Reagan's 'revenue' increases

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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How the new flexible president won his 'revenue' increases which will help balance the books. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.

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