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...During the Carter Administration, stories considered unfair or off base by the White House often resulted in ill-tempered lectures from a senior staffer. But Reagan usually takes this kind of thing in stride, and so do his subordinates. One way to measure an Administration's sense of balance is to watch the way it reacts to criticism...
Raymond Donovan, 51, is one of the Cabinet's weakest players, even in the eyes of the White House. "No comment," said a presidential aide when asked about the Labor Secretary. Added a Hill staffer: "He is simply out of his league. He combines not much knowledge of the issues with not much skill in politics...
...says an admiring congressional aide. Drew Lewis' success in running the Department of Transportation is surpassed only by his effectiveness as a team player in the White House and his adroitness as a political operator on Capitol Hill. In Congress, Lewis, 50, is, in the words of one staffer, "the best Transportation Secretary since Hannibal, and has certainly moved more elephants over mountains...
There the money stayed until one day in early September, when a staff member of the Office of Policy Development discovered the cash. That evening, the staffer notified White House Counsellor Edwin Meese; next day Meese told other senior
...future come soon enough to regret it. Adding word processors and an electronic mail system to a department filled with middle managers might simply boost their output of pointless memos or reams of undigested numbers, thereby actually adding to company overhead instead of paring it back. Says a staffer at Apple Computer Inc., a leading manufacturer of personal computers: "We found ourselves generating hundreds and hundreds of pounds of papers until top management decided it wanted fewer numbers and more thoughts." On the other hand, a study by the General Accounting Office on office automation within the Federal Government found...