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...kind, and Darman had been perceived as one of Reagan's dexterous puppeteers. But heavy lobbying by James Baker, who with Darman formed an inseparable duo in the early Reagan years, eventually persuaded Bush to appoint Darman Budget Director. "When we went to see Bush about the OMB job," said Craig Fuller, Bush's transition co-director, "we only took one name...
...decade the Reagan and Bush administrations have been submitting fraudulent, free- lunch budgets that promised huge tax cuts, a social "safety net," a "kinder, gentler" nation, improved education, a war on drugs, the greatest military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced...
...plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged 275 telephone calls from lawmakers and Washington lobbyists...
Before Hansen could deliver his testimony, however, his text was amended by officials at the Office of Management and Budget, who routinely review statements made to Congress by members of the Administration. OMB staffers inserted a disclaimer stating that scientific projections of the impact of global warming were merely "estimates" and "not reliable predictions." To Hansen, the effect of the change was to water down his testimony. When he appeared before a Senate subcommittee, he handed out the OMB-revised written testimony, but then gave his own uncensored views of the dangers of global warming...
...OMB's action raised concern that the White House is not serious about dealing with the greenhouse threat. And the pressure on Bush increased when Britain called for rapid drafting of an international treaty to address global warming. Finally on Thursday, even as the President was busy reacting to the crisis in Panama, the White House sent a special cable to the U.S. delegation attending a U.N.-sponsored environment meeting in Geneva. The cable, signed by chief of staff John Sununu, directed the American representatives to invite the other participating nations to a global-warming workshop in Washington this fall...