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...RICHARD DARMAN: First of all, the Governor of Arkansas has managed to make his state somewhere between 48th and 50th in every key indicator. Second, it is a crucial moment in the history of global economic development. The world is moving toward the U.S., toward market-oriented systems. It would be a highly regrettable irony for America to head toward a highly interventionist, European-style system of the type Governor Clinton would produce. Those have failed...
...DARMAN: In some respects yes, in some respects not. Why don't we talk now about how things are going to get better, because we certainly are not claiming that everything is rosy...
...DARMAN: The key for long-term growth is to get productivity up. And to do so, you need to reform the educational system so that we're sending into the labor force people who are more highly skilled and more adaptive in a world that requires greater math literacy, science literacy and computer literacy...
...DARMAN: The deficit, as a percentage of the economy, is close to 5%. It was 6.3% in the 1982-83 period. I'm not saying that we should be happy with it, but I think that you're way out-of-bounds in suggesting that it's an impeachable offense...
Each morning and night, Baker and his team meet with five other officials: Budget Director Richard Darman, campaign chairman Robert Teeter and manager Fred Malek, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Baker makes most of the decisions on scheduling, speeches and lines of attack; he demands same-day execution from his nine aides. "Once decisions get made," says Malek, "they stay made...