The Nation - News from Aug. 6, 1985

Democratic governors protested a partisan fund-raising appeal by President Reagan that attacks them for a “liberal mind-set.” The Reagan letter to past contributors to GOP candidates surfaced after a speech to the National Governors Assn. by Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III at the group’s conference in Boise, Ida. “Clearly, the huge majority of governors the Democrats have represent the last unchallenged stronghold of the liberal ‘tax and spend’ philosophy that nearly brought America to her knees,” the Reagan letter said.