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White House Chief of Staff James Baker remembers a thick black notebook. Budget Director David Stockman remembers a set of unbound papers. CIA Chief William Casey says he has no recollection of the document...
Administration officials gave those hazy and conflicting accounts last week to a congressional subcommittee probing a revelation that Ronald Reagan may have got an unfair advantage during the 1980 presidential campaign from a purloined briefing book. Both Baker and Stockman confirmed that they had received one of President Carter's confidential briefing books, which was used to help prepare Reagan for his nationally televised debate with Carter in October...
...Ethics in Government Act, was sparked by a new book on Reagan, Gambling with History, by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Barrett wrote that "apparently a Reagan mole in the Carter camp had filched the papers containing the main points" Carter planned to make in the debate. Baker, Stockman, Casey and Communications Director David Gergen, all former Reagan campaign aides, sent Albosta letters explaining what they knew about the papers. Meanwhile, Administration officials debated whether to ask the Justice Department to launch a search for the mole and the book...
...Reagan doesn't have the credentials to carry off this issue," insists Mondale Pollster Peter Hart. "He has three years of David Stockman's green visor staring him in the face." White House aides concede that the impetus on the education issue will be hard to sustain, since the Administration is simply urging state and local action rather than offering a program of its own. "We have to hit the issue hard now," says an Administration official, "and then bring it back next year." But White House aides feel that for the short term, at least, the President...
Before Hollings levitated to the presidential level he had real flavor. He called David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, "a pathological finagler." In the debate over the MX, he roared at the opposition, "Dense pack is an appropriate name for more than just a missile configuration...