TNR has found a quote from George Herbert Walker Bush responding to a plan by Presidential candidate Pete Dupont for partially privatizing Social Security. It’s from the November 23, 1987 issue…

“I think it’s a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of [hurting] the people who’ve been saving all their lives…. It may be a new idea, but it’s a dumb one.”

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