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...hands that the way is being paved to just ease you out permanently," said Donaldson. "I just wonder if you were worried about that?" But Allen had not let himself be drawn into commenting on superiors who would not support him, and had thus forfeited any impression of complete candor; nor would he criticize a President who remarked, "We'll have to wait and see." The decision would be the President's once the "facts" were in, said Allen, and "neither you, nor I nor anyone else should prejudge it." If this was the case...
Stockman obviously didn't realize how cynical his recorded remarks to a friendly reporter would look in print. Most interviewing isn't prosecutorial; a sympathetic listener gets the best quotes. In Stockman's case, the cries of betrayal when candor proved disadvantageous were relatively muted and gentlemanly...
...lasting success in Washington. But there is a double sense in which we should be grate ful that Stockman had that capacity. For one thing, idealistic public officials appear infrequently enough to learn our respect regardless of their political viewpoint. But more importantly, Stockman's frustration contributed to his candor; in his case disillusionment was like a truth serum. And that candor, as Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan) noted, was refreshing, particularly so for what it revealed about the legislative process...
...Stockman article also stimulates the Crimson writer to announce that Stockman's candor "provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry which have characterized the administration's program." This seems to be pure rhetorical nonsense designed to fit his perceptions of the Reagan Administration as inherently evil. To say that the Administration lied by promising a better economy and then not delivering in the first 11 months of its existence, indeed, in the first two months since the tax bill went into effect, clearly shows more liberal frustration and impatience than any deceit on the part...
What shocked readers of the December issue The Atlantic Monthly, on and off Capitol Hill, was not what Stockman said in his interviews with William Greider, but the candor with which the budget director conceded that his administration's supplyside policies did not merit the credibility they had heretofore garndered...