WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Wednesday threw its support behind a proposal to waive intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines, with liberals framing it as a necessary bid to speed the shots to billions of people in the developing world, while the drug industry warned of devastating effects to vaccine production.
Dozens of developing countries back the proposal, arguing it will allow them to rapidly produce their own generic vaccines, rather than wait months or years for sufficient doses.
Joe Biden, the Reverse Ronald Reagan
Four decades later, another elder statesman seeks to transform Americans’ ideas about the size of government.
President Reagan giving his State of the Union address in 1987. Years earlier, as he kicked off his political revolution, he had stood before Congress and said, “Our government is too big, and it spends too much.”Credit.Courtesy Reagan Presidential Library
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Forty years ago, a new president stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered a simple message: “Our government is too big, and it spends too much.”
Sitting in the audience, the junior senator from Delaware a young Joseph R. Biden Jr. couldn’t possibly have predicted how President Ronald Reagan’s words would come to define politics for generations. But for the decades that followed, Mr. Biden, along with most of his party, would operate in the shadow of Mr. Reagan, believing that an outright embrace of big government would be politically d