Word: omb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efficiency experts of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which Nixon created to help centralize control of his Administration. Interior Secretary Morton, himself a member of the Domestic Council, says that Cabinet members no longer want to be "cut off at the pass by the OMB." Morton and other Cabinet officials have long complained that the OMB has tried to impose its concepts of management and budgetary controls on their departments from the top on down...
...change in the powers of the Domestic Council and the OMB will most likely result in a change in the men who run their operations. Council Director Kenneth Cole Jr., 36, who also serves as the President's top domestic affairs adviser, is expected to leave soon. Cole, a former advertising man, simply lacks the clout and political experience that Ford will demand in the new job. Cole will probably be replaced by what one presidential adviser calls "an alter-ego type of person"-a seasoned political figure who thinks very much like Ford...
...present head of the OMB, his future with Ford is limited by the fact that he made enemies by the way he accumulated and used power in Nixon's White House. Ash is expected to be replaced by someone who the President feels will work well with the new domestic adviser...
...made an optimistic statement about the energy crisis. Simon, on television, smilingly warned Ash to "keep his cotton-pickin' hands off energy policy." Next day Ash retorted: "We don't pick cotton at OMB. We run the plantation...
There are, however, a few surprising sources of anti-Simon sentiment: some lower-level aides at the White House and in the Office of Management and Budget resent Simon's sudden prominence and independent ways (he recently said that OMB Director Roy Ash should keep his "cotton-picking hands off energy policy). Some of them have taken to making snide wisecracks about Simon: "When the President appointed an energy czar, he didn't know he was getting Ivan the Terrible...