New York, Jan. 16—As one would expect, a fight is going on within the Reagan camp, broadly viewed, on economic strategy. That a fight should be going on within a political congeries validates the proposition, at once comforting and sad, that people are human and remain so even when elected to positions of power.
Why Senator Dole and Representative Barber Conable should so heatedly oppose the adamant commitment of Mr. Reagan to be guided by the supply-side logic of Kemp-Roth can only be understood in terms of orthodox trepidation. Few people would take greater pleasure than Messrs. Dole and Conable from economic recovery in America. But when Richard Nixon said airily in 1971 that “we are all Keynesians now,” he was speaking not only for his royal self, but for his orthodox henchmen, such as Dole and Conable.
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