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...ribbon commission on Social Security struggled to reach a compromise before its charter ran out. He argued inside the White House that failure to preserve the solvency of the Social Security system "not only had the potential of destroying this Administration, but the entire party." Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a member of the commission, praised Baker as "a superb staff man." Says an aide to Republican Senate leaders admiringly: "Baker is a master poker player. He never shows his cards-and he wins...
...negotiations had become deadlocked over the proper mix of tax increases (generally favored by Democrats) and benefit cuts (generally favored by Republicans). The final days of deliberation had all the hallmarks of shuttle diplomacy. A coterie of four prominent commission members, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, Moynihan, Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York and former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, huddled repeatedly with Baker, Budget Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong...
...meet its Jan. 15 deadline for agreement on proposals to save the ailing Social Security system was a photo finish. "You may be collecting your Social Security before we finish this commission, but I assure you it will be there when the time comes," quipped Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York as he entered Blair House, the capital's official guest residence for visiting statesmen, where the eleventh-hour negotiations took place. Administration officials, led by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, conferred on and off with various combinations of commission members throughout the panel...
Backstage, Cornelia's principal co-star swings in: Maura Moynihan, 25, a Harvard graduate and only daughter of New York's Democratic Senator...
Afterward, Maura Moynihan, in her leather miniskirt and cowboy boots, scrambles straightway to the top of an 8-ft.-high pedestal and works off her postperformance nervous energy by go-go dancing. Cornelia, all smiles, steps off the stage to be kissed and congratulated by her mother and brother, by Roberto, by Fashion Photographer Francesco Scavullo, by one of her agents and by half a dozen trim, middle-aged men in business suits who have been buzzing around...