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President-elect Ronald Reagan's reported plan to establish an "inner circle" of Cabinet members resembles recommendations given to transition officials by Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School...
...Allison's proposal--which Kennedy School sources say he communicated to some of Reagan's highest aides both before and after the election--calls for a senior policy-making board composed of four members of the Cabinet. The group would be the president's most important advisers...
...formation of an "executive committee of the Cabinet"--known as Ex- Cab--would reduce the role of the White House staff and make "key Cabinet officers the primary substantive counselors to the President," Allison and Peter Szanton '52 wrote in their 1976 book "Remaking Foreign Policy...
Edwin C. Meese III, the Reagan aide who will have administrative responsibility for the Cabinet, and Weinberger, a former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and a long-time Reagan adviser, are among those to whom Allison has recommended the ExCab arrangement, sources said yesterday...
...sources said Weinberger, who could not be reached for comment, supports the proposal and has suggested it to other Reagan officials. In July, Weinberger wrote Allison to compliment him on this "important and useful" proposal...