Word: bogard
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...truth, O'Neill's reputation has moved steadily away from the footlights toward reading lamps, a process that began during his lifetime. That, at least, is one of many conclusions to be drawn from Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill (Yale University; 602 pages; $35). Editors Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer have chosen 560 examples, some published for the first time, of the roughly 3,000 surviving O'Neill letters. The result is a fragmented but fascinating autobiography that shows its subject growing disillusioned with the theater even while he was furiously engaged in expanding its possibilities...
Although he denies being part of a Reagan wrecking crew, Bogard knows that others in the organization do not agree. A recent memo from two of his deputies ordered regional staffers not to have any contact with elected officials or the press. The latest source of indignation in the ranks is a set of proposed new regulations that could make millions of poor people, many of them elderly, ineligible for free legal assistance. The pending rules could disqualify those with more than $15,000 equity in a home or $4,500 in a car. They would also assume that...
...heated up two months ago when Legal Services President Donald Bogard ordered a bizarre set of "raids" on his own regional offices in search of material showing questionable practices by his predecessors. That effort struck pay dirt with the release last week of a preliminary report from the General Accounting Office, alleging that some former Legal Services officials and grant recipients violated LSC's prohibition on using funds for political organizing. The GAO, which is the investigative arm of Congress, based its 16-page report principally on a January 1981 meeting in Boulder, Colo., attended by top Legal Services...
Former Legal Services officials deny that this call to political action violated LSC rules. They charge that the GAO report and other investigations are nothing more than a collateral attack on the program's existence. LSC President Bogard, who took over the agency last December, warns ominously that the apparent past abuses "could very well have an adverse effect on the continuation of the corporation...
Fighting back with its own maneuver last week, a House subcommittee disclosed that Indianapolis Lawyer Donald Bogard, the new president of the LSC, has a contract that provides such perks as paid membership in a private club and a guarantee of a full year's salary ($57,500) if he is fired. The committee also revealed that the Reagan board appointees have charged $244,097 in consulting fees and expenses this year, more than double the bill of any previous board. The White House has asked the Office of Management and Budget to check whether the consulting fees represent...