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...that inspiration has remained nonpartisan. Allison notes that the Reagan Administration has more Harvard affiliates in top positions than Kennedy did. That includes three K-School professors--Christopher C. DeMuth '68, who is working on regulatory reform. Roger Porter, who serves in economic policymaking, and presidential assistant Richard G. Darman...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...
...secret discussions bore fruit last Thursday in a meeting in the Speaker's office that included O'Neill, Stockman, Democratic Whip Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Darman and Kenneth Duberstein. The $4.3 billion package, which will create only 125,000 new jobs, contains less than first meets the eye. It is mainly the acceleration of scheduled projects, and thus involves only about $700 million in new spending. But from a symbolic standpoint, it allows the Democrats to claim a victory for the jobless while allowing Reagan to meet...
...transplanted Texan's single-minded focus on the politics of problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters. He also relies on the White House's congressional lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein, to handle the details of legislative strategy...
...most prominent change since Inauguration Day is not the scar left by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 but the 1½ in. of new muscle added to his chest by daily workouts with a weight machine in the White House family quarters. Says Presidential Assistant Richard Darman: "He is fantastically resilient...