Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were tinted red, and the lines beneath them were more pronounced than usual. As he strode toward the narrow lectern in the Executive Office Building, he forced only a slight smile. In rare defeats in the past Jimmy Carter has kept himself grimly in control. But as he announced Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation last week, Carter twice almost lost his composure. Voice choking, eyes misting with tears, the President paused, bit his lip and declared: "Bert Lance is my friend...
...public, Jimmy Carter permitted himself a rare display of deep emotion. In private, the President and Bert Lance, both born-again Christians, read from the Bible, bowed their heads in the Oval Office, and prayed. All the while, the Budget Director's proud wife LaBelle insisted that her husband had brilliantly cleared himself of wrongdoing, and appealed directly to the President that her husband stay in office. But the close-knit Georgians turned in the end to the advice of shrewd Washington veterans and wisely ended Lance's eight-month career as Director of the Office of Management...
...very tight fall budget has limited the SEO to hiring only 85 Radcliffe students for the Work-Study program thus far, and it is using far stricter eligibility requirements than those applied to Harvard undergraduates...
...Nixon's mistake in granting the Shah's colossal arms requests, but he fails to explore the deeper diplomatic ramifications of the arms trade. Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) often cites the importance of the arms industries in providing jobs, but Sampson never uses the simple federal budget analyses which show the significantly higher cost of defense-related jobs compared to non-military jobs...
...Congress and President Gerald Ford decided to try to curb the proliferation of official forms, reports and studies by creating a Commission on Federal Paperwork. With their franchise due to expire next month, the commission's 14 members have spent $1 million less than their $10.5 million anticipated budget. With the aid of 200 full-time staffers, they prepared 35 reports-totaling 550 pages. Among their discoveries: the federal bureaucracy spends billions each year just pushing paper around. "And in too many cases," says Commission Director Warren Buhler, "paperwork has become the program. We have to get away from...