Letter from America: Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered - Reagan chooses cabinet, 1981

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Reagan's choice of a wealthy cabinet means a slow start for the new administration.

This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.

Published on Friday, 9th January 1981.

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