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At the heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

As he prepared to leave the Government in January, Pierce pointed proudly to his three Government decorations and declared, "President Reagan asked me to reduce the size and cost of Government and at the same time try to take care of the most needy. I think I did that very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

RENT SUBSIDIES. A program to provide subsidized housing was turned into a treasure trove from which millions of dollars in rent subsidies, tax credits and consulting fees were doled out to prominent Republicans and a handful of rich developers. Pierce stood idly by as his executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

If you can't kill a Government program, why not milk it? That, it seems, was the attitude of some officials who had failed to persuade Congress to stop spending some $200 million a year on fixing up run-down apartments and making them available to the poor with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: It's Who You Knew at HUD | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

T.M.G. students may be allowed to pierce their ears and wear trendy hairstyles -- acts of individual expression forbidden in Japan's lockstep education system. But former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander hopes the Japanese will teach Americans something too. Speaking at the school's opening ceremonies, he bemoaned U.S. students' poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rising Sun over Sweetwater | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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