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Radio 4,10 Feb 1989,15 mins

Revenue enhancements and the Nixon files

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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President Bush's proclamation of "no new taxes", the difference between a tax and a revenue enhancement, and the release of President Richard Nixon's secret files.

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