Word: darman
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...line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief economic adviser Michael Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman, the White House argued that market forces, rather than government, could best determine which technologies made it from the lab to the shopping mall...
...balance may shift toward the Administration's "do something big" faction, which includes Vice President Dan Quayle, Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp. In an appearance before the House Ways and Means - Committee last week, Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman suggested that Bush would be willing to break the budget agreement to give the economy a shot in the arm by lowering taxes for the middle class. But when the hearings resumed after a luncheon break, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, leader of the Adminstration's "do as little as possible" faction, differed with...
This is no renegade operation: Bush, chief of staff John Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman are fully apprised of the panel's activities. When such agencies as the EPA and the White House differ over how aggressively to implement a law, the council moves in to referee. Staffed by fewer than a dozen officials, who are, even by Bush White House standards, unusually conservative, the council regularly sides with business against the environment. Even Administration officials marvel at how powerful the body has become. "Because Quayle has Bush's total confidence," said a former Administration official, "nobody can touch...
...REILLY's unhappy too, and may jump ship. The Environmental Protection Agency director has been telling friends that he is tired of trying to do the right thing on clean air and other issues only to be stymied by more powerful Administration free-marketeers like John Sununu and Richard Darman. President Bush admires Reilly's grit. But Reilly complains that he is becoming the President's environmental poster child and may have to leave to preserve his integrity...
...election season approaches, senior Republicans are worried that White House chief of staff John Sununu is burrowing deeper into his bunker, refusing to listen much to anyone except budgetmeister Richard Darman and domestic policy chief Roger Porter. Longtime Bush confidants are miffed at Sununu's recent practice of cutting them off at the pass and having a junior aide return their calls, dictate marching orders to them, and even respond to their letters to Bush. So how is a honcho to convey his thoughts to the President? Last month Bush himself opened up a new back channel, giving...