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...Carolina), interest deductions for vacation homes, and the oil depletion allowance. Reuss even asked about a $37 million program for roads in national parks and wilderness areas. Replied Stockman in a revealing aside about the scale of Government spending: "That may be an item we missed. The computers at OMB are programmed to round off at $50 million...
...avowed purpose of issuing the don't-hit list was to redeem Reagan's pledge that his spending cuts would not hurt the "truly needy." But many veterans and Social Security pensioners scarcely meet the stern definition of truly needy people offered by OMB Associate Director Donald Moran: "People who in the absence of Government benefits could not survive...
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...