HEADLINE: Reagan Attacks Democrats on Social Security;
Reagan Attacks Democrats For Social Security Moves

BYLINE: By Helen Dewar, Washington Post Staff Writer

The excerpt below refers to both letters and a proposed television speech. This should help narrow the search. In browsing through the articles of the time, it seems he proposed some major cuts, but was forced to back off.

In his letters to Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses, Reagan also sought to neutralize the issue by serving notice that he will go before the country "as soon as possible" to "call on the Congress to lay aside partisan politics and join me in a constructive effort to put Social Security on a permanently sound financial basis."

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