One term is not enough—Reagan

Press, 31 March 1983, Page 6

One term is not enough—Reagan

NZPA-Reuter Washington

President Ronald Reagan, who has yet to announce if he will seek re-election in 1984, said yesterday that one term in office was not long enough for a President to implement his programmes. “You really can’t in four years carry through programmes that may be necessary,” Mr Reagan told reporters at a question-and-answer session.

He insisted that he was not tipping his hand about his plans, but Mid that the United States had suffered because of a snccessh* of one-term President*. “I think it creates an instability,” fee said when asked if the rapid turnover in administrations during the past two decades was cause for concern. The last President to serve two complete fouryear terms was Dwight Eisenhower, who left office

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