The U.S. Economy, the SDI and Ronald Reagan

So, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. was running for election for Democratic nomination in
'79, and proposed beam defense weapons again, in the form of a proposal, which
was a campaign statement. Then, during the process of meeting
with Bush, who was a real asshole, in New Hampshire, we got into
discussions with the Reagan campaign. And because of these
discussions, once Reagan had been nominated, and elected, we went
into full steam: LHL went to Washington, and started the
discussion. We got a process receptivity on this thing, so that
before Reagan was actually inaugurated, we had this in place.

Then, after he had been inaugurated, we continued it. LHL
used to make trips to Washington, on this situation, and others.
So, what happened at the same time, is, some friends of ours who
came from my generation, the World War II generation, who were in
high-ranking positions in the intelligence community -- one of
them was Bill Casey, who became the national security chief, or,
the CIA director. And other people. And we also found people in
Europe, similarly, in France: Two national heroes of France,
veterans. A whole group in Germany, among German military
officers and related people. General officers in Italy. Leading
political figures in other countries, agreed.