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...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...
...attempt to portray Clinton as publicly "too slick" and privately "too loose" to be President. Until last week, when Clinton finally found a way to expand the definition of those words to his benefit, his responses had been less than satisfying. On Tuesday the Administration's Budget Director, Richard Darman, told a congressional hearing that everyone but the White House should be blamed for the nation's sagging economy. After learning of Darman's remarks, Clinton's chief strategist, James Carville, fairly screamed, "That's the hook we need!" So the very next day in the Louisiana Superdome, Clinton attacked...
...flap over Quayle also diverted attention from the Administration's attempt to blame the Democrats for the deficit and the sickly economy. Introducing the Administration's midyear economic review, Budget Director Richard Darman blasted Congress for failing to enact Bush's economic program, including his proposals to reduce the capital-gains tax and give first-time homebuyers a $5,000 tax credit...