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When President Reagan entered office in January 1981, Congress had just weathered four frustrating years with the Carter administration. Part of Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976 had been directed against Congress and the bureaucracy. He seemed to pride himself on being an ‘outsider’, untainted by the compromises and deals practiced in the nation’s capital. His congressional liaison team had little experience in dealing with Congress, often viewing it as not much more than a national version of the Georgia legislature. Relations with congressional leaders began poorly and never recovered.
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Fisher, L. (1990). Reagan’s Relations with Congress. In: Hill, D.M., Moore, R.A., Williams, P. (eds) The Reagan Presidency. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20594-3_5
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