President Ronald Reagan addresses Congress on
President Ronald Reagan addresses Congress on April 28, 1981, a few weeks after surviving an assassination attempt. Behind the President is VP George H.W. Bush and Speaker of the House Thomas Tip O'Neil. The Senate had a Republican majority while the Democrats dominated in the House of Representatives. In spite of the divided government, the Reagan administration's Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, received enough Democratic party votes to became law (BSLOC_2021_4_49)
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13498054
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45402602
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2006px x 3000px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
