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...find out if he would be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency. He wasn't, although he had been a leading contender for hte post. But his critical outlook toward regulations ultimately earned him a position in the Office of Management and Budget, the mileu of chief budget-slasher--and an old DeMuth associate--David Stockman...
...finance director in Reagan's California cabinet, and has remained close to the President. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Richard Nixon and as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under both Nixon and Gerald Ford, Weinberger became known as "Cap the Knife," the vigorous slasher of budgets and waste...
...distinctly Nixon-Ford tinge, as members of previous Republican administrations-reshuffle and reassemble. To the disappointment of fire-and-brimstone loyalists who dreamed of a Moral Majority-staffed White House, the only truly new face on the scene pushing for extreme government disembowelment is whiz-kid budget-slasher David A. Stockman; all other cabinet-level positions went to establishment administrators, bankers and the occasional crony. It's happened before, an aide says, and it'll happen again. "Jimmy Carter spent 1976 campaigning against Washington, and look what he ended up with: Cy Vance, Lloyd Cutler, Harold Brown. When it comes...
...piece to the inner puzzle turned out to be Caspar Weinberger, 63, who from the beginning was almost certain to enter the Cabinet. "Cap the Knife" Weinberger acquired his fearsome nickname as a budget slasher in 1968 when he was Reagan's finance director in California, and he embellished his reputation as Nixon's OMB director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Weinberger is a devoted advocate of the inner circle idea, having worked under a similar arrangement with Reagan in Sacramento...
That pretty much left Weinberger, although some complained that a budget slasher was a strange choice for a President who intends to mount a major military buildup. In Reagan's view, however, Weinberger may be just the man to make sure that generals and admirals spend their unexpected dollars wisely...