ABSTRACT
Once upon a time in America, Republican presidents frowned on totalitarian schemes to control the citizenry. Ronald Reagan, for instance. Now, Reagan may not have been the most pure classical liberal who ever lived, but he had a prudent fear of overweening government. Martin Anderson, President Reagan's chief domestic and economic policy advisor, tells of a signal moment in the Reagan presidency—a moment in which Reagan revealed himself as a man with a healthy suspicion of Big Brother.
