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After his celebrated indiscretions in the Atlantic last November, it was assumed that David Stockman had committed suicide by pen. Indeed, the Administration's star statistician and masterful Director of the Office of Management and Budget lowered his profile practically to the point of invisibility. He refused all requests for interviews and appeared on Capitol Hill only at closed-door sessions to negotiate the "final" 1982 budget package...
...while, Stockman was busily preparing the 1983 budget, which is as much his handiwork as the President's. He personally wrote Reagan's budget message, as well as 75 pages of the 610-page document; he even redrew charts and footnotes to make the presentation clearer. Said an amazed career official at OMB: "We've been lucky in the past if our Director even read all of the budget before it went to the printer. In this case, Stockman wrote it." Now the OMB Director is emerging from his self-imposed isolation. Last week he made...
Face reddening, voice rising, Stockman struck back: "If you don't like our budget forecast, then you're free to go up to the Congressional Budget Office and get another set. Nobody was tricked or misled." Confronting Glenn, he said: "I don't appreciate that, and I hope you won't find it necessary to bring it up again...
...that argument. I will not ask you to try to balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayers." Ironically, most prominent among the "doubters" were Reagan's top aides, who strongly and unanimously urged new revenue measures. Chief of Staff James Baker and Budget Director David Stockman, and eventually the rest of the Reagan high command, were convinced that increased taxes were needed to save the Administration from increasing the nation's trillion-dollar debt by a whopping one-third during their first term. They tried to get Reagan to accept excise taxes as part...
...University, a racism so strong that in this country, even in the wake of the 60's. Black men make less compared to while men than they did a decade ago. There's corporate power and avarice, from feudalism through the Pullman strike and on to the "hogs" "David Stockman watched feed on the carcass of the New Deal this summer. And there is the horror of so many individual lives without purpose: the grinding misery of the hopelessly poor: the Valium cum General Hospital somnambulism of the "comfortable...