Word: hodel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wavering Republican who supported the bill the first time around, Sen. David Karnes (R-Neb.), went to the White House and met for 30 minutes with President Reagan, Vice President Bush, chief of staff Howard Baker, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and Energy Secretary Donald Hodel...
...iconography of the cold war: one December day in 1948 on his Westminster, Md., farm, Whittaker Chambers retrieved from a hollowed-out pumpkin a microfilm that implicated former State Department Official Alger Hiss in the passing of Government secrets to the Soviets. Last week Interior Secretary Donald Hodel proposed that Chambers' farm be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. White House Speechwriter Anthony Dolan had relayed to Hodel a conversation with President Reagan during which the President quoted from memory long passages of Chambers' 1952 autobiography, Witness...
Last week Interior Secretary Donald Hodel proposed a reversal of that decision. If the reservoir could be drained and the valley restored to its original condition, mused Hodel in a staff memo, "what a tremendous payoff for America...
Conservationists are wary of the idea and accuse Hodel of using the scheme as a smoke screen to divert attention from such controversial measures as oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Others say he is actually looking for a way to get Washington to pay about $1 billion to complete the half-finished Auburn Dam nearby. But no one is more opposed than Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, which still depends on the reservoir. Snapped Feinstein: "It's the worst idea since selling arms to Iran...
...Roger Porter, who served as a White House aide in the Ford and Reagan Administrations, the point was brought home in Reagan's first term when Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel told the Cabinet he would like to reduce the Office of Fossil Energy to 591 people but was stymied because Congress had decreed the office could not be shrunk below 754. "The efforts by Congress to micromanage the Executive business are most unfortunate," says Porter, who now teaches a course on the presidency at Harvard. It makes for good theater in the electronic age but, in Porter's view...