Diary Entry - 11/08/1982
Key Facts
President Reagan participates in a meeting with General Bernard W. Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
Twenty-nine inmates die, and sixty-one persons are injured in a fire at the county jail in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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A long day of budget sessions with the Cabinet Council on economics. It’s going to be a long, hard struggle with unemployment still up and a massive deficit hanging over us. We’ll be back at it tomorrow. Met with Allied Sup. C.O. of N.A.T.O. Gen. Rogers. He’s a fine man & General. A meeting also on our falling exports. Our $ is now so high priced it’s setting us back on export trade—plus which our friends are still practicing protectionism while subsidizing their exports. We have to find an answer.
