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...CBO was set up as part of the new budgetary process under which Congress votes spending and deficit ceilings rather than passing appropriations bills in disorderly bits and pieces. Rivlin's job is to systematically analyze the probable effects of various choices on the economy. As she puts it, "Congress has always had a lot of power over the budget, but it was not organized to think 'Is that really what we want...
Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...