Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial dealings, the President's brother announced blithely that on several occasions he had taken the Fifth Amendment. The statement inflamed suspicions that Brother Billy might be covering up some unsavory-or even illegal-money dealings between Lance, who resigned as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the fall of 1977 because of his questionable banking practices, and the Carter presidential campaign...
Carter apparently thought the committee would be more of a ladies' auxiliary. Its budget was a minuscule $300,000, mostly in services. Abzug had to negotiate for the loan of office space and staff. All members served without...
When the meeting was rescheduled for Jan. 12, the committee prepared a press release in advance, outlining its criticisms of social-spending cuts in Carter's new budget. The release, which included such undiplomatic words as "challenged" and "unacceptable," reached White House Aides Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell as they were celebrating Jerry Rafshoon's 45th birthday. Outraged, the White House staffers decided Bella...
From the White House point of view, the budget's key accomplishment was lowering the projected deficit to $29 billion. With the economy now in the fourth year of recovery and expansion, there really should be no deficit at all; but attempting to slow the flow of red ink is a move in the right direction. For that, Budget Director James Mclntyre deserves much credit. Unlike years past, when Carter involved himself deeply in the budget-drafting process and reviewed the document virtually line by line, this year he left the task largely to Mclntyre. The budget boss mainly...
...other hand, existing programs were not cut much at all. Total spending for HEW rises a bit more than 10%, to $199.4 billion next year, and the department's share of the budget grows fractionally to 37.5%. Similarly, at Housing and Urban Development, spending is up slightly more than 18%, to $ 10.6 billion. Boasted one HUD staffer: "We didn't lose one program that we didn't want to lose...