Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year's Crimson combine might have the credentials to top the old show. Already Harvard has risen from the ash-heap to scratch and claw its way into the NCAA District I playoffs, and win its fourth-straight EIBL title...
...amply like West Egg's, Hollywood was bound to lure Fitzgerald into a mad hate-love affair. Its attraction could magnetize the man as certainly as it could rot his art. As the peeling Dr. Eckleberg--monument to America's first age of advertising and god of the ash heaps--mocked the death of Gatsby's dreams, so Hollywood--monster bulwark of materialism and smug summit of the equation--tortured Fitzgerald. Yes, the place could be as hostile to Fitzgerald as West Egg had been to Gatsby. Though both could dream unto death, neither could ever be of either place...
...matter how it was handled, the announcement would have been anticlimactic. It had been common knowledge for almost a month that Simon would succeed George Shultz as Treasury Secretary-and the announcement by no means decides Simon's backstage battle with Budget Director Roy Ash for pre-eminence in economic policymaking. As the new Treasury chief (Senate confirmation seems certain), Simon may eventually wield more influence than any other economic official. But Ash has secured a promise from Nixon of an expanded role in policy formation...
...role in the coordination of economic policy." Simon will, however, inherit still another Shultz job: chairman of the economic "troika"-the Treasury Secretary, Budget Director and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers-that meets periodically to advise the President. That post should give Simon a slight edge over Ash...
Since then there has been no public bickering between the two, but both have been vigorously campaigning to line up support from the President and his key aides. Two weeks ago Ash flew to the Florida White House for a weekend discussion with Nixon about the future of economic policymaking machinery-and presumably his desire to play a larger role in it. Simon then closeted himself with White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who is apparently in Simon's corner...