Word: omb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of his economic team before departing for his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., for Thanksgiving weekend. The biggest question is whether former Reagan Treasury official and Baker protege Richard Darman will be named to head the Office of Management and Budget. A respected investment banker, Darman at OMB would please the markets, but he might seem too independent to meet Bush's exacting standards of loyalty...
...Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs admits that sometimes "stamina was more important than intelligence" in keeping pace with the travel and social demands of his post. At the Office of Management and Budget, the challenge is "not to cave" in to demands for money. Says a former OMB associate director: "A lot of people are not willing to be unpopular...
...wrote for Dan Rather ("Autumn has dropped like a fruit") and then became Ronald Reagan's best lyricist ("The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them"). "When she left, the | Great Communicator sang no more," said Michael Horowitz, former counsel of OMB. George Bush tapped Noonan's talents, and she came up with his best line yet: "We have earned our optimism, we have a right to our confidence, and we have much...
...City College of New York, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in 1958. Throughout his career he has shuttled easily between military outposts and Washington's corridors of power: he won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for service in Viet Nam, did a stint at OMB, commanded an infantry battalion in Korea, served as a Pentagon military assistant in both the Carter and Reagan administrations...
...University of Chicago Law School, clerk for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall, and later professor at Harvard, he left teaching to join the Justice Department as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for regulatory affairs. After a year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg dossier: during his freshman year at Cornell, he dropped out and became a partner in a computer dating...