Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House waiters plied his friends with food and drink, and soft music wafted over the waters of Palm Beach. "You'd better enjoy it now," said one observer to Salinger, "because when you go out of office, it's all over." Salinger grinned widely, tapped the ash off his cigar, and replied: "Do I ever know...
Like characters in a novel by Allen (Advise and Consent) Drury, two of the Nixon Administration's most powerful figures are grabbing for the sweeping economic policymaking authority once wielded by departing Treasury Secretary George Shultz. The contenders are Roy Ash, 55, once president of Litton Industries, now director of the Office of Management and Budget, and William E. Simon, 46, a former Wall Street bond trader, now federal energy czar. Simon is on the verge of winning an early round: President Nixon this week is expected to name him to succeed Shultz at Treasury, a job that apparently...
...disorganization is unlikely to end until the Simon-Ash struggle produces a clear winner. In classic Washington fashion, that struggle is being fought almost entirely behind the scenes. Tension between the two men has flared openly only once, in February, when
...Ash made an optimistic statement about the energy crisis. Simon, on television, smilingly warned Ash to "keep his cotton-pickin' hands off energy policy." Next day Ash retorted: "We don't pick cotton at OMB. We run the plantation...
...successor as Treasury chief could quickly re-establish Shultz's primacy in economic policymaking. Shultz has been not only Treasury Secretary but an assistant to Nixon and the Administration's first formally designated economic coordinator. Even if his successor also gets those titles, other Administration figures like Ash and Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz are sure to grab for some of the authority that Shultz exercised...