Word: omb
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...appointment was no surprise. Mclntyre has been doing the job as acting Director of OMB since Lance left in September. Indeed, he has been Carter's numbers man since long before that. He was Georgia's budget director when Carter was Governor, and even when Lance was head of OMB, Mclntyre as Assistant Director did most of the real work of budget preparation. (Lance told anyone who would listen that he did not like to get mixed up with figures, and some OMB staffers referred to him as an "absentee landlord...
Those improvements alone would cost $36.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation has petitioned for funding, and the OMB is expected to act on the request later this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster to spur his colleagues to action, Idaho's Senator James McClure plans to resubmit two dam-safety bills that were introduced, unsuccessfully, after the Teton Dam collapse. Said McClure's home-state Senate partner Frank Church: "We have got to move urgently to watch over these dams, rebuild...
Then, ironically, two Washington Senators urging Lance's removal actually delayed any decision to resign. Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which in January had unanimously confirmed Lance as OMB Director, and the ranking Republican, Charles Percy, visited Carter on Labor Day. They told waiting reporters, who had been tipped off about the visit by senatorial aides, that they had learned of "new allegations of illegality" against Lance. The Senators confirmed that the committee staff had interviewed convicted embezzler Billy Lee Cambell, who had claimed vaguely (and apparently never under oath) that Lance was "part...
...gave only one reason for resignation, citing "the amount of controversy and the continuing nature of it." The President explained further, conceding that the affair had diverted some of his own attention from more pressing duties and predicting that it would have prevented Lance from devoting full time to OMB if Bert stayed there. Moreover, said Carter, "he needs to go home and take care of his own business"-a reference to Lance's heavy debts and financial obligations. Carter did not lash out at Lance's critics, although he said some of their charges "were greatly exaggerated...
...fact, Lance had violated those standards in private life, and Carter was invoking both a protective double standard and an unpresidential bit of sentimentality in refusing to say so. Repeatedly the President praised Lance as "a good and honest man," and, not making the selection of a successor at OMB any easier, predicted that no one could be found who would be "as competent, as strong, as decent and as close to me as a friend and adviser as he has been...