Word: omb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the OMB director struggles into his jacket and overcoat and starts down the corridor. "We've got just two more weeks," he says over his shoulder. The deadline he is referring to is Feb. 18, when Ronald Reagan plans to announce the details of his fiscal program, including radical surgery on the federal budget...
...after that encounter: "I lost every practice debate with Stockman. After him, Anderson and Carter were a piece of cake." At Thanksgiving, the President-elect phoned to tell Stockman: "David, I've been looking for a way to get even. I think I'll send you to OMB...
...Allen has offered no dissent. That is a restructuring of power that would never have been tolerated by Allen's predecessors, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger-at least not by Kissinger until he moved from the Security Adviser job to become Secretary of State. Haig also bridled at OMB Director Stockman's public disclosure that he is seeking a very large cut in the foreign aid program. That, Haig made plain, is the Secretary of State's turf...
...loyalists, Reagan is now faced with doing the same in key sub-Cabinet posts. His choice for Deputy Defense Secretary, Frank Carlucci, is a classic example of the former group, a versatile administrator of moderate Republican leanings. Currently deputy CIA director, Carlucci is a former deputy to Weinberger at OMB and HEW, and the Defense Secretary-designate has insisted to Reagan that Carlucci be made his deputy despite furious opposition from right-wingers who consider Carlucci too liberal in his political sympathies...
...well, a Mama Bear. No doubt he was chosen less for his physique than for his professional credentials: in the years since he got his 1962 B.S. in communications and political science at the University of Illinois, Brady has worked for the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the OMB, the Pentagon, Delaware Senator William Roth and, most recently, Texas' John Connally...