Word: darman
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...fact, Reagan's popularity is so easily explainable as to be utterly banal. As top campaign adviser Richard Darman noted at a post-election Kennedy School of Government roundtable, when the economy is prospering and you're at peace, you're 80 percent of the way there...
...agenda during most of his first term, stood by passively as his top advisers rearranged themselves. The reshaped White House staff, now headed by Donald Regan, has proved less adept at sniffing out and averting trouble than the first-term damage-control team of James Baker and Richard Darman, now the top men at Treasury. "Darman was very careful at keeping the President's rhetoric under control," says a high Administration official. The new staff, by contrast, favors a combative tone, and that tone has begun to backfire. White House Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan in particular has urged...
Meese's former colleague in the White House upper echelon, James Baker, was handily confirmed as Treasury Secretary last week by a 95-to-0 vote, and another former presidential aide, Richard Darman, was confirmed as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Meese is having a considerably tougher time, but despite his long ordeal, he is expected to win the committee's approval this week and Senate confirmation some time this month...
...flunked the deficit-trimming test, and House Democratic leaders are equally loath to cut Social Security, the Senate Republican leaders have been left to salvage the situation. They decided to offer their own deficit-cutting plan two weeks ago after a meeting with Administration officials, including Baker, Richard Darman and Budget Director David Stockman...
...Jones University case and popping off about foreign debt. Overnight McNamar disappeared from the newspapers. Says a Regan aide: "Don got his attention by taking away all his duties for a while." (McNamar's name surfaced again last week: he resigned from Treasury, making room for Richard Darman...