Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama began a week earlier, when Namphy attempted to reassign Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, a Manigat loyalist who was indicted in Miami three months ago on drug-trafficking charges. But Paul balked at being transferred to a less important military post, and was backed up by Manigat, who rescinded Namphy's order. Two days later, the President dismissed Namphy himself for "insubordination." Attempting to consolidate his power, Manigat had Namphy placed under house arrest and announced the reassignment or retirement of 37 officers...
...temporary post at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Not as hard as it sounds, since the school offers a wide array of fellowships for mid-career bureaucrats and displaced politicians. The nameplates along the corridors (Joseph Nye, Al Carnesale, Robert Murray, Robert Reich, Graham Allison) read like a government-in-exile, and old articles are being recycled daily into speech drafts...
...Publish an opinion piece in the New York Times or Washington Post. "All op-ed pieces are really resumes," says Washington Attorney David Rubenstein, who read his share while serving as a policy adviser to the 1976 Carter campaign. Stuart Eizenstat, Jimmy Carter's former domestic policy adviser, is an earnest, respected economics expert. Yet when his name recently appeared as co-author of a Washington Post piece entitled "Defense Lessons for Democrats," it was enough to rub nerves. Scoffed a former Carter Administration colleague: "Is that a job application, or what...
...James Robinson. The article quoted Felix Rohatyn, the head of Lazard Freres and among those most commonly mentioned for Treasury Secretary, as touting Republican Robinson for that job in a Dukakis Administration. Score one for Rohatyn. It then quoted Robinson as saying he has no desire for a Cabinet post. "There was a lot of mirth in the office over that one," a Wall Street colleague recalls...
Congress overhauled the retirement program in 1983, after dire predictions that the Golden Age for the post-World War II generation would bring on the Dark Ages for Social Security. Before the reforms, the trust fund had worked more like a chain letter than a pension plan. Each current retiree's benefit check required payroll taxes from four current employees. But so many children were born right after the war and so few after 1964 that the pay-as-you-go system threatened to collapse when the boomers retired. In the first half of the next century there will...