European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 Tom Wicker Reagan forcing democrats of sell political Birthright to hear Larry Sika is Tell president Reagan emerged from anaesthesia righteously demanding action on the Bud get deficit this that sounds Fine except that it now appears that the deficit was deliberately created by Reagan in order to do away with democratic social programs dating Back to the new who says so David the de parting budget at second and Friedrich von Hayek Hes the Nobel economist who has been a guru of their comments suggest that the action the president demands this week is what he really wanted As far Back As the Mam Moth tax cuts he steered through a be Congress in 1981 budget cuts to disembowel pos new Deal govern Hes ruled out tax and the disastrous budget Compromise he engineered last week would result in More Mil itary spending and no reduction in social Security costo living the Only Way to compensate is to kill or prune even More social programs such As student Loans or who claims a reputation for spilled the after the budget directors resignation last Daniel Moynihan of new York said Stockman had told him that even in 1981 Reagan knew the lax cuts would mean loss of but that the president had accepted the resulting Rise in the deficit in order to bring pressure on Congress to Cut that sharply contradicts what Reagan then said in Public that cutting taxes would expand the economic base and in crease in his 1980 he even contended that the increase in reve Nues resulting from the tax Cut would pay for the military buildup he also but Moynihan said Stockman had told him that in the plan was to have a strategic deficit that would give you an argument for cutting Back the programs that we rent it got out of a former student of Moynih has denied any such conversation but not the substance of the Moy Nihan said he had had dozens of private talks with the budget director their the senator was that the principal purpose of the tax cuts was to provide a basis upon which to shrink James Reston Ernest i Rollings of South the ranking Democrat on the budget has made a similar he told the association for a bet Ter new York in january 1984 that Rea Gan intentionally created a deficit so Large that we democrats will never have enough Money to build the sort of govern ment programs we when i cited the possibility of a planned deficit in an article last it caught the attention of Eckhart Kohler of the Institute for advanced studies in he sent me a translation from the German of an interview with Friedrich von Hayek that appeared in the Magazine Profil in in the Issue of March after remarking that his work had influenced both Reagan and prime min David Goliath ister Thatcher of that Many of the presidents advisers had come from circles 1 am acquainted and that he was wearing a set of cuff links Given him by the economist commented i really believe Reagan is fundamentally a decent and honest his poli tics when the government of the United states borrows a Large part of the savings of the the consequence is that Capi Tal must become scarce and expensive in the whole that a von Hayek you one of reagans advisers told me Why the president has permitted that to which makes the matter partly excusable Reagan thinks it is impossible to persuade Congress that expenditures must be reduced unless one creates deficits so Large that absolutely everyone becomes con Vinced that no More Money can be the economist Reagan Hopes to persuade Congress of the Neces sity of spending reductions by Means of an immense he has not but he More than von Hayek could know last now he wants while some americans May agree that a shrunken government makes a deliberately created deficit partly excuse such a deficit still reflects a reckless deception with worldwide consequences yet to be and congressional democrats should realize the source of the pressure there under to sell their political c new York times is it healthy Tor nation to know presidents health the president is Back at the White to everyone but his aides Are still sore at the press for asking All those questions about his medical they say its distasteful to intrude into the private relations Between a doctor and his maybe the Only trouble is that this is precisely what the White House said when they were covering up the illnesses of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin All would be they the questions were not Only distasteful but since the with Good have condemned the press for misleading the the intention Here is not to suggest that president reagans illness is As serious As Wilsons in 1919 or Roosevelt in but merely to question the popular idea that the confidential relationship Between doctor and patient also applies when the patient is president of the United the health of a president is not merely a private but a Public As Reagan recognized by authorizing the disclosure of the most intimate details of his cancer oper but there Are two the first is that the people get almost too Many medical facts about a presidents illness in the White and too few about the state of his health before he gets and the second is that they seem indifferent to the health of presidential candidates during the election the facts in reagans Case Are not in everybody knew he was no Spring his doctors told him in March of at the beginning of the last presidential election that they had found a polyp in his Colon that was not malignant but a warning the White House doctor then was Daniel we dont know what Ruges advice was at that time but Larry the White House whose manners Are no better than his memories of his said he would not make Ruge available for ques again on the ground of confidential doctor patient in any nothing was done about that first medi Cal and there Are two theories Here about the first is that Reagan didst take the news All that and didst really want to think about the second is that he thought vaguely about but decided it was no big and if he went into the Hospital to have it even if the doctors found nothing it would be frontage news and raise in the election Campaign the Issue of his which was the one thing he feared the was it a medical decision or a political decision nobody but the president really what we do know is that the White House is now saying and you cant blame them at this late Date that there was never really any discussion in 1984 of the presidents health in relation to the reelection Cam which is probably but Why want the matter discussed this is one of Many unanswered its interesting to compare All this with How president Eisenhower dealt with the Healtha Dage Issue after he had a heart attack and before he decided to run for a second on he invited several members of his Cabinet to dinner at the White among them were Secretary of state Dulles and Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey his chief of Sherman Adams Henry Cabot Jim his press and his brother the president placed before them the detailed medical reports of his and asked some hard questions what if he died during the or shortly after the election if he won who would be left behind he mentioned some possible he went round the table asking each one what he should All said he should go for a second including who told him his health would be cared for better in the White House than anyplace else All except his brother who insisted to the and that Ike should quit while he was personal and historical analogies Are reckless if not but at least Ike tried to make a rational and orderly transition of presidential Power and wonder As he told me one that maybe there should be some outside panel of doctors that could consider or confirm the health problems of presidential candidates before it was too c new York times