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...other Senators carried on the attack. Referring bitingly to a "credibility problem" at OMB, Tennessee Democrat James Sasser declared: "We're going to have to have truth in packaging this year." Even Illinois Republican Charles Percy wondered about the Administration's real commitment to the New Federalism, asking: "Is this a pretext for budget cutting...
...budget, which is as much his handiwork as the President's. He personally wrote Reagan's budget message, as well as 75 pages of the 610-page document; he even redrew charts and footnotes to make the presentation clearer. Said an amazed career official at OMB: "We've been lucky in the past if our Director even read all of the budget before it went to the printer. In this case, Stockman wrote it." Now the OMB Director is emerging from his self-imposed isolation. Last week he made his first public appearance before Congress since...
...recommendation from the Office of Management and Budget. After hearing the arguments, the man who sits where the buck stops jots his "RR" in a small box next to one of the alternatives, or scribbles in a compromise. The disputes between Cabinet agencies and David Stockman's OMB have reached the Oval Office, where Ronald Reagan must play either Santa or Scrooge. Even as the final legislation implementing his 1982 budget was being rushed through an adjournment-happy Congress last week, the President was working on the cuts he hopes to make in spending for fiscal 1983 (which starts...
Moreover, the President clearly indicated that he values Stockman's counsel by following his advice. When the Atlantic article first appeared, the President summoned Stockman for a chewing out that the OMB boss described as "a visit to the woodshed." But in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters last week, Reagan stoutly defended Stockman's loyalty to the Administration. The President said he accepted Stockman's assertion that his remarks to the Atlantic were "off the record," and added that "David Stockman was not the sinner. He was sinned against...
Altogether, Stockman found it profitable, as well as necessary, to scrub a four-day, 15-stop speaking tour of the Midwest and West, which he had scheduled to shore up his standing with Reagan loyalists. The OMB director did address a fund raiser in Denver, by telephone hookup from Washington, and said he "considered it a privilege to work 15 hours a day on some days as a soldier in the revolution coming to America." But he canceled all his personal appearances, to the annoyance of some Republican Congressmen...