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Brady, who sometimes seemed unschooled in public finance but had had long experience as head of an old-line investment firm, regularly expressed disdain for excessive public and private debt. Darman, meanwhile, was pressing for a "grand compromise" by which Bush and the Congress would agree to a package of spending restraints and tax hikes to bring the red ink gradually under control...
...unemployment continued to rise in 1992, many Republicans called for the heads of Brady and Darman, whom conservatives held responsible for the breaking of the tax pledge. But Bush defended them. Activist Republicans also called in July and August for Bush to demonstrate powerfully the shift in his attention from foreign affairs to the domestic economy by declaring at that point that Baker would serve as economic czar in a second term. But until last week, Bush deferred to Baker's preference for returning to the State Department...
...flight from St. Louis to Washington after the first presidential debate. Seems he took a lot of heat for it from the bigwigs back in coach class, including White House chief of staff James Baker, presidential pollster and official campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Dick Darman. "I've visited 35 states since February," Bond says, "and I've accumulated several hundred thousand frequent-flyer miles, which we're using to upgrade me at no expense to the party or the campaign...
...than the Democrats say it is; 2) My economic team is working hard to make it better still; 3) But I'm firing all of them anyway, effective the day after the election. Not only has Bush let it be known that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, budget director Richard Darman and economic adviser Michael Boskin will be shown the door; he has also asked all presidential appointees to prepare letters of resignation...
...Richard Darman, the architect of the Bush economic policy, has found a unique way to job hunt. One of the more bizarre spectacles of the Administration's endgame has been the Washington Post series on the economic meltdown. The series combined an exoneration of Darman and a tarring of others with sufficient Darman biographical material to make for an eye-catching resume. Guess who the main source...