All of this is expected to play out over a series of legislative confrontations.

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But he also laid out a series of legislative proposals that would require congressional action, and this was among those.

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President Carter's legislative team made a series of mistakes such as failing to give Speaker Tip O'Neill a sufficient number of invitations to the inauguration and not informing Democrats about when the president would visit their districts.

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