The Nation - News from March 3, 1985
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Former Interior Secretary James G. Watt declared that President Reagan’s second-term mandate is being lost and that “the liberals still control the Establishment of this country.” Watt told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington that the Republican-controlled Senate, in electing Robert J. Dole of Kansas as majority leader, “elected a leadership not committed to the revolution that had been commenced and re-endorsed in 1984 . . . “
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