Word: darman
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...RICHARD DARMAN: First of all, the Governor of Arkansas has managed to make his state somewhere between 48th and 50th in every key indicator. Second, it is a crucial moment in the history of global economic development. The world is moving toward the U.S., toward market-oriented systems. It would be a highly regrettable irony for America to head toward a highly interventionist, European-style system of the type Governor Clinton would produce. Those have failed...
Each morning and night, Baker and his team meet with five other officials: Budget Director Richard Darman, campaign chairman Robert Teeter and manager Fred Malek, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Baker makes most of the decisions on scheduling, speeches and lines of attack; he demands same-day execution from his nine aides. "Once decisions get made," says Malek, "they stay made...
...senior strategists" like layers on a compost heap. He is taking his own core staff of four seasoned political operatives from the State Department, and he will hack through tangled lines of authority by working with such trusted, longtime allies as campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Richard Darman...
...have the prevalent product in a sitting President. All the tests of political correctness -- on abortion, on homosexuality, on not raising taxes, on control of the arts -- are matters of Republican concern this time. This is a party of purges, not inclusion: it cries for the heads of Richard Darman, Nicholas Brady, William Reilly, even of Dan Quayle, even of George Bush. The party is in so little inclusive a mood that it only grudgingly continues to include its own President...
...second case in point: the budget deficit. Bush has called his own acquiescence to the 1990 tax hike "a mistake" But Bush and many of his advisers simply don't believe this. Budget director Richard G. Darman '64 strongly backed the compromise, as did Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady. It's true that some administration officials opposed the measure, but Bush himself bragged about it privately. One of his top aides told Japanese officials that the budget deal showed the Bush administration "knowing how to do the difficult things" on the deficit...