Nomination of Donald T. Regan: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on Nomination of Donald T. Regan to be Secretary of the Treasury, January 6, 1981

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 43 pages
 

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Page 5 - Regan is a member of the Policy Committee of the Business Roundtable. He...
Page 5 - Mr. Regan is the author of A View from the Street, an analysis of the events on Wall Street during the crisis years of 1969 and 1970, which was published in 1972 by The New American Library.
Page 4 - Board of the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the...
Page 11 - Over 100 years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was a wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's already privately owned land. They did not take from those who owned to give to others who did not own. It set the pattern for the American capitalistic system. We need an industrial Homestead Act ... It is time to formulate a plan to accelerate economic growth and production and at the same time broaden the ownership of productive capital. The American dream has...
Page 42 - ... fixed-rate residential mortgage. Regulations and tax law precluded institutions from doing much else. The expanded asset powers permitted by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 and those proposed in subsequent legislation are intended to reduce the balance sheet vulnerability of thrift institutions and to foster equality among financial institutions.
Page 11 - I would like to have a statement from you as to what you would like—not in too much detail—but what appropriation do you imagine should be appropriated?
Page 11 - Over one hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was a wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's already privately owned land, They did not take from those who owned to give to others who did not own. It set the pattern for the American capitalistic system.
Page 31 - Without trying to wrap myself in the American flag, the country is in a predicament at this moment. The President of the United States asked me to be in his Cabinet. How could you refuse when you get a call of duty of that nature?
Page 22 - I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. If you...
Page 5 - DC, and has four children : Donna, Donald, Richard, and Diane. Education : Harvard College, 1936-1940; BA degree. Military service: Major, US Marine Corps, 1940-1946; served in Iceland, Guadalcanal, New Georgia, North Solomons and Okinawa ; retired as lieutenant colonel, US Marine Corps Reserve.

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