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...Roger B. Porter was one of those Harvard affiliates who took the jeep from its Cambridge depot. An expert in presidential politics, Porter has has taken a two-year leave of absence from the Kennedy School to serve as Bush's chief advisor for domestic policy. And Richard G. Darman '64, a former lecturer in public policy, currently heads the Office of Management and Budget...
...list of Cambridge-Washington connections does not end with Darman and Porter, however...
Between the global troubles, the President spent time with Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I've been talking about 1991," he said with a rueful smile, "and I don't like a thing I've heard so far." For the moment Mikhail Gorbachev, the wily Slav, and General Manuel Noriega, the Latin scoundrel, hold the spotlight, but Bush knows that in the long run, the monstrous, suffocating federal budget may be his biggest threat...
...President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell cautioned, "No one should be deluded into thinking that this...
PROFILE: Richard Darman is Bush's deficit doctor...