Growing US deficit

Published: May 9, 1986, 11:58 a.m.

Reagan gets thumbs-up from voters through tax cuts - despite national deficit rocketing into hundreds of billions. The sound quality on this recording is variable/poor. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.