Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Majority Leader Dole uncorked some champagne bottles in his office at 4 a.m. to celebrate, and took a call from Reagan in Lisbon, where it was 10 a.m. "We know you're a little disappointed on defense," Dole told the President, "but we may have some adjustment later on." Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici took the phone to promise Reagan that the final figure on military spending, after all congressional budget action is completed, would be "no lower than this number or we just won't have a budget...
White House aides contended that the budget resolution, military spending aside, gave Reagan most of what he wanted. Dole estimated it would reduce outlays by $56 billion below the totals foreseen earlier for fiscal 1986, which starts Oct. 1, and by $295 billion over three years. Both figures are a bit higher than Reagan had requested in his February budget. If all projections prove out, the deficit would shrink from an anticipated $213 billion in the current fiscal year to less than $100 billion by fiscal...
...President left on his ten-day European swing and Senate voting began on parts of the budget package, Dole tried out varying combinations of spending cuts in about 100 meetings with shifting coalitions of Senators. But the voting lineup kept coming out the same. Faced with almost unanimous Democratic opposition, Dole needed every Republican vote. But ten to twelve Republicans adamantly refused to approve any military increase that would exceed the inflation rate...
...last week Dole knew he had to put a full budget resolution to a vote quickly; ballots on individual provisions would shred the package beyond recognition. He put the deal together with the help of White House Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf and Budget Director David Stockman, who spent nearly all his time during the final week in Dole's three-room office suite. They put through a series of calls to Reagan's traveling party in Lisbon--White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan took most of them--informing the President's aides what was happening...
Weinberger's role in the end-game maneuvering seems to have been peripheral. The Secretary of Defense visited Dole's office at midweek to make a final, unavailing plea for a 3% military budget increase in excess of inflation. His final call or calls to Lisbon got no different result, and he left Washington for his summer home in Northeast Harbor, Me., before the Senate vote. White ) House aides say he did not speak directly with the President as the decision was being made. Weinberger took strong exception to those suggestions. "I had no problem reaching him," he said...