http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/white-house-claims-new-ally-in-debt-limit-fight-ronald-reagan/1The White House is enlisting the help of someone dear to its Republican opponents as it tries to win congressional support for raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit.
Ronald Reagan.
Amid a sea of paper released today by the Treasury Department was a four-paragraph letter Reagan wrote in November 1983 to then-Senate majority leader Howard Baker, who later went on to serve as White House chief of staff.
"The full consequences of a default -- or even the serious prospect of default -- by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate," wrote The Gipper. He went on:
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