20 YEARS AGO

James Joyner · Sunday, May 4, 2003 · 2 Comments

WaPo has a scanned copy of the front page of the January 5, 1983 paper, with links to the stories. It’s amusing how much has–and has not–changed.

Sound familiar? Alan Greenspan is ~~fed chairman~~ making news. GOP Senators are fighting with a Republican president. Fighting in the Middle East. A South Carolina Democrat making a bid for the White House.

Big changes: A Member of Congress wants to change parties; he resigns first. Apartheid was running strong in South Africa.

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George says:

Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 21:28

Paul Volker was chairman of the Fed in 1983. IIRC Greenspan was first appointed in 1987.

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James Joyner says:

Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 21:47

Oop. You’re right. It didn’t sound right to me but my memory was as fuzzy as the print on the scanned page. Greenspan was Chairman of the Social Security Advisory Committee in 1983.

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