... hikes had produced a surplus in the treasury, Reagan distributed much of the excess money back to the taxpayers. One campaign promise Reagan kept was to clean up the mess at Berkeley. By confronting the violent demonstrations at that state university, he ordered the California Highway Patrol and later the National Guard to the ... Berkeley campus when riots broke out in 1969. But he did compromise on a proposed tuition on state university students, settling for a charge instead and thus cutting costs while at the same ... the other candidates withdrew from the race. July 1980 saw Reag...

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