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...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...
...leaves room for bargaining, should ensure that his budget will not be rejected out of hand, as was the dead-on-arrival plan he delivered to Congress last February. "The debate this year is going to be within the framework presented by the President," says his top lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein. Hill leaders agree. But because Reagan's program includes so many unpalatable specifics, another grueling yearlong struggle over spending and taxes is surely in store. "The budget fight will be bloody and partisan," predicts Republican Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming...
...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...
...second step began two weeks ago, when Reagan loyalists in the newly elected Congress called on the President. White House Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein had learned their views in advance and worked out a coordinated presentation. Basically, the Representatives and Senators told Reagan that he must propose a reduction in military spending and some kind of tax changes in order to present a budget that Congress would even consider seriously. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, made the deepest impression on the President. Laxalt advocated a standby tax increase and some kind of spending...
...strategy, so far, has failed resoundingly. When Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein reported at a budget meeting that even so fervent a congressional hawk as Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican House whip, is now calling for a slowdown in military spending, the President silently shook his head no. Reagan then interrupted the uncomfortable session to place a call to the astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. As if glad for an escape, he told the astronauts, "Well, now, wait till I get my hat and I'll go with...