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Transition sources, who spoke only on condition that they not be identified, said the directorship of the White House Office of Management and Budget post would go to Darman, a former K-School lecturer, and that Boskin, a Stanford University economics professor, had been tapped to head the Council on Economic Advisers. Both nominations have been widely expected...
...Darman was the top aide and protege to James A. Baker III during his four years as President Reagan's first chief of staff. In Reagan's second term, Darman was deputy to Baker as treasury secretary. Both left the government when Baker resigned in August to run Bush's presidential campaign...
...Darman once was an aide to Elliot Richardson at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the early 1970s. He has an inside knowledge of government and the budget that rivals that of Reagan's first budget director, David A. Stockman...
...Richard Darman...
Prognosis: A brilliant and image-conscious idea man, Darman will ride herd on budget cutting and spending priorities...