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...that tries to lay the intellectual foundation for their promised "new beginning." David Stockman, President Reagan's Budget Director, bought 30 copies and sent them to Administration aides. Says he: "It's the best thing written on economic growth in about 15 years." The book causing the stir is Wealth and Poverty (Basic Books; $16.95) by George Gilder, 41, a sociologist-turned-economist, who once wrote speeches for Nelson Rockefeller...
With negotiations at such a delicate stage, the Carter Administration was outraged to find that the Soviet Union was trying to stir up new trouble for the U.S. with Iran. Powell and State Department Spokesman Trattner berated the Kremlin over a charge in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda that the U.S. was getting ready to use military force in Iran. On instructions from President Carter, Muskie took the unusual step of summoning Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a scolding, terming the newspaper account "scurrilous propaganda" and warning that it could have "lasting effects on U.S.Soviet relations." Speaking for Carter, Powell...
...Carter Administration, Safire now envies his liberal colleagues, Mary McGrory and Anthony Lewis: "They're lucky guys, with a new lease on life. To be on the attack is to be more readable." Though Safire describes himself as "a right-winger," never underestimate his fondness for creating a stir. In one column he savaged Reagan's new Attorney General, William French Smith, for attending a 65th birthday party for Frank Sinatra. It was bad enough, Safire wrote, for Reagan to turn to Sinatra for fund-raising help and to put him in charge of Inaugural entertainment...
...period of relative peace ... Unchecked, the growth of Soviet military force must eventually paralyze Western policy altogether." Haig told the Senators that the evidence of danger "is everywhere"-in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, its forces ringing Poland, its shadow over the Persian Gulf region and its efforts to stir up trouble in Africa and Latin America...
While U.S. Commissioner of Education under Richard Nixon, Terrel Bell admitted that being at odds with the President "is really part of the job." Said he: "I want to exhort, stir things up, tread on toes." After serving under Gerald Ford, Bell backed the ultimately successful drive to make education a department separate from the morass of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Now, as the prospective Education Secretary, the final Cabinet choice to be named by Ronald Reagan, Bell should find it easy to be at odds with his new boss, who favors dismantling the year...