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...goes the list of potential cuts: the black book suggests reductions in federal aid to the arts, in support for public TV, in mass transit, in postal subsidies and in the space program, even though both Reagan and Stockman are ardent space buffs. Not even the most popular federal programs are spared. In the case of Social Security, the Administration would leave basic retirement benefits untouched. But it is considering scrapping the $122 minimum monthly benefit to retirees who have paid very little into the system and payments to students whose parents have died, as well as reductions in disability...
...Sunday night, David Stockman sits alone at a conference table in the cavernous, ornate sanctum of the director of the Office of Management and Budget, poring with total concentration over computer printouts and tables of figures. When a visitor arrives to keep a dinner date, Stockman appears disappointed. "Is it that time already? I need five more minutes." Before the words are out, his gaze has returned to the papers...
...Stockman, a bachelor, pursues his 14-hour-a-day schedule, which includes lobbying Congressmen and haggling with Cabinet officers, with a special sense of urgency. If the Administration cannot quickly build support for its unorthodox economic ideas, then Ronald Reagan may fail his central domestic test. Stockman, with his knack for hyperbole, has warned of "incalculable erosion of G.O.P. momentum, unity and public confidence," if the Reagan program is not well on its way to enactment by midyear. There is personal urgency as well. Circumstances and Stockman's own aggressive zeal have made him the most visible and influential...
Thus far, Stockman has never lacked for job opportunities. Raised on a farm near St. Joseph, Mich., he learned local politics from his maternal grandfather, a county official and Goldwater Republican. At Michigan State University in the mid-'60s, he came under the influence of the antiwar movement and a left-wing instructor. "I became a soft-core radical," he recalls. But he remained a faithful Methodist, channeling his antiwar advocacy through church efforts...
...interest in religion brought him to Harvard Divinity School at a time when Cambridge was in a state of ferment. Stockman became estranged from what he calls the "nihilistic radicalism" of the period. He found refuge as a live-in babysitter for Daniel P. Moynihan, then a Cambridge-Washington commuter while serving as an adviser to Richard Nixon. At home on weekends, Moynihan, now a U.S. Senator from New York, treated graduate students to brandy-spiced evenings of political conversation. "I became Moynihanized," Stockman says. "I was looking for an alternative viewpoint that was respectable, while being anti-left...