This Day In 1970's History: Sunday December 6, 1981
- Muammar Qaddafi denied plotting to assassinate President Reagan or anyone else in an interview from Tripoli televised by ABC News. "We are sure we haven't sent any people to kill Reagan or any other people in the world," said the Libyan leader. In Washington, the State Department responded with a statement that it had evidence of such plans, saying that "Qaddafi has been planning the murder of American officials both here and overseas." [New York Times]
- Frustration with Washington and a feeling that severe restraints on public services are coming preoccupied a weekend conference in Durham, N.C. of leaders of the National Governors Conference. "The federal government is doing nothing to help clarify the proper roles of the state and federal governments, the governors said in statement summarizing their discussions. [New York Times]
- A vastly reduced federal aid role, going beyond even the budget cuts and consolidation of 57 programs into nine block grants to states, is the aim of President Reagan's appointees, who have been moving pervasively to fulfill the President's campaign pledge. However, both liberals and conservatives agree that the drive for federal disengagement had not yet been deep enough to alter the basic structure of the government. [New York Times]
- New England's biggest snowstorm since 1978 covered the region with two feet of snow, closed Boston's airport,
cut off power to 60,000 people and was responsible for the deaths of two persons. The storm was driven by winds of up to 50 miles an hour. [New York Times]
- Thomas Corcoran died in Washington following surgery. He was a lawyer in Washington for many years and had been a protege of Felix Frankurter and an adviser in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Called "Tommy the Cork," he was one of President Roosevelt's principal strategists in the development of such historic innovations as the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was 80 years old. [New York Times]
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