Mandate for Leadership II: Continuing the Conservative Revolution

MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP II; Continuing the Conservative Revolution by Stuart M. Butler, Michael Sanera and W. Bruce Weinrod. Copyright 1984. "I strongly believe that Mandate for Leadership II is going to be one of the most meaningful and best things that President Reagan and those associated with him will have to guide them in the next few years. Knowing Ronald Reagan as I do, I know that he personally will use Mandate II, and that it will be an important contribution to what happens in this country in the years ahead." Edwin Meese III, Counsellor to the President. When the original Mandate for Leadership was released, just weeks after Ronald Reagan's first presidential election victory, the US was engulfed by problems and the new President was confronting challenges unparalleled in nearly a half-century. Mandate was designed to be a detailed road map to help the fledgling Reagan Administration steer the nation into a sound future, guided by conservative principles. In looking back on those early months, Ronald Reagan was to say that Mandate gave him and his Administration 'special substantive help we'll never forget...We've been using Mandate to our and the country's advantage." By the end of the President's first year in office, nearly two-thirds of Mandate's more than 2,000 specific recommendations had been or were being transformed into policy.