Diary Entry - 02/08/1983
Key Facts
President Reagan attends a Cabinet meeting on deregulating gas prices.
President Reagan signs Executive Order 12403 marking U.S. membership in the African Development Bank.
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An N.S.C. meeting about Surinam. [. . .] Dropped in on Edit. writers lunch & took some Questions. Cabinet meeting on deregulating gas. Hodel is going to work with our leaders in Cong. to come up with a package to deregulate & at same time protect consumers. Under the present (Dem.) control plan there are 28 dif. classifications of gas price & it has still gone up about 50%. Staff & D. Stockman came in about accelerating pub. works already in budget to head off a Dem. job’s program. Bill Clark is off to Geneva to huddle with our negotiators.
