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...caused, and the announcement of his departure was the cue for a bipartisan chorus of praise. "He was the only one who really knew the numbers," said Congressman Tony Coelho, a California Democrat. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called him "the most effective OMB Director we've ever had."[*] Even the Washington Post's editorialists, often critical of Stockman's cuts, commended him "for a kind of intellectual and moral integrity that is rarely found in national public life." Stockman was bemused by the shower of accolades. "I never knew I had so many...
...born in May, received an offer from the Wall Street firm of Salomon Brothers that was hard to refuse. As one of Salomon's managing directors, Stockman stands to make more than $700,000 a year in salary and bonuses, in contrast with the $75,000 he earns at OMB. When he told Regan about the offer ten days ago, the chief of staff, who made a few dollars on Wall Street himself as chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., urged him to take...
According to one White House official, Regan will act as "a search party of one" in choosing a replacement. Regan, who served as Treasury Secretary during the President's first term, will probably select a less independent figure to run OMB, one who would allow the chief of staff considerable control over the budget. Thus the front runners for the post, Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige and former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, may lose to a less well-known candidate like White House Domestic Policy Adviser John Svahn...
...told Thomas A. Scully, the Bush-appointed Medicare administrator, that the White House numbers were many billions off the mark. Foster also says he sent his calculations to Doug Badger, the administration’s top health policy analyst, and to executives within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Health and Human Services...
Neither Scully nor OMB officials nor any senior White House aides—all of whom knew Congress was about to vote under false pretenses, and none of whom could have acted without higher authority—lifted a finger to stop the cover...