Diary Entry - 03/06/1981
Key Facts
President Reagan announces plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
The U.S. announces plans to sell advanced military equipment to Saudi Arabia including AWACs surveillance planes.
Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of The CBS Evening News.
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Met with 7 Gov’s, on the Automobile Co’s. problems. Jim Thompson, Dick Thornburgh, Jim Rhodes, Gov. Dreyfus, Bob Orr, Pete Dupont & Bill Millken. It was a good meeting & reinforced my belief in Federalism. We’ll do better if we return a lot more authority to the states.
2nd Press Conf. tried questions by lottery. We wont do this again.
Took the Wicks to Camp David and ran a movie that night.
