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That is history, for next year, everyone agrees that an economy held back by the energy shortage will need some budgetary stimulus. The question is how much. At the moment, OMB Director Roy Ash and other top budgetmakers are trying to keep the deficit under tight rein and cure the unemployment problem partly by creating new -and relatively cheap-job programs, like expanded public service employment. Last summer Ash gave Government departments budget targets that totaled about $292 billion, which was then expected to just about match anticipated revenues. The expenditure figures, though, must now be increased by $8 billion...
Robert Mayo to George Shultz to Weinberger to Roy Ash...
...cold in the Maryland mountains when Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, walked into Laurel Cottage at Camp David, normally the President's work retreat. On this morning Nixon was in Florida, and his troop of budget experts had moved...
...plaid wool shirt, Ash looked deceptively casual. He sat at the head of the walnut conference table. In front of him was a five-page agenda for two full days of work. "Gentlemen," Ash said quietly to the 14 men, "let's get going. We have a budget to prepare." That first session lasted seven hours. It was the same the next day-isolating the trouble spots like the massive defense expenditures, then hammering them back into place, billion by billion, even by millions...
DISPOSING OF ATOMIC WASTES. "Most of the uproar is about wastes from nuclear power plants, which really do not produce much radioactive ash. If such wastes were evaporated and solidified, the total amount created by the year 2000 could be stored in an area about the size of a football field. Our military programs produce more, and we're still seeking a publicly acceptable way of storing them, perhaps in underground caverns. There's no imminent danger...