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...roots of the Administration's hang-tough approach on budget matters could be seen in the Cabinet ruminations of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. As the system works now, Meese complained, the size of the federal budget all too often dictates the content of the programs it funds. This Administration, he said, should reverse that process: decide first whether it likes a specific program, irrespective of its support in Congress, and include it in the budget only if the answer is yes. In the sub-Cabinet budget meetings, there was also strong sentiment to press for spending cuts even...
...start of the Hinckley trial, polls showed that 87 percent of the public believed that too many murderers were using the insanity plea to avoid jail. Reagan adviser Edwin Meese III, quoted as saying that reform of the defense would help "rid the streets of the most dangerous people... out there," failed to understand what a recent Harvard Law Review article made clear...
...years. Here he committed one of his few verbal slips, citing "the policies of weakness of the last four years," when he meant the Carter-Mondale term. Then he ran out of time, just as he was warming to an inspirational peroration. Reagan smiled good-naturedly when Moderator Edwin Newman chopped him off with half a minute of the conclusion he had prepared still to go. Rarely has a President been so abruptly interrupted, but those were the rules of the debate...
...Edwin R. Kammin Waltham, Mass...
...fact that Donovan had been cited in the Masselli wiretaps apparently did not even reach the FBI's Washington headquarters promptly. When Edwin Meese, a top Reagan transition adviser, asked FBI Director William Webster in December 1980 whether the FBI had any information linking Donovan to organized crime, Webster responded, "I know of nothing to hold up the nomination at this time." The director wrote a memo saying that the FBI's 59 field offices had run checks on Donovan with no negative findings. In fact, no such national FBI survey had been made...