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...David Gergen resigned last week to accept a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Three weeks earlier, Legislative Liaison Kenneth Duberstein quit to join a private lobbying firm. The departure of these two "pragmatists" as well as the expected resignation early next year of Budget Director David Stockman, will leave Baker with only two staunch allies in the White House, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman. That prospect, along with the fatigue of three years in a very demanding job, may be the reason that one of Reagan's steadiest players is flirting with the idea of becoming...
What this reveals to the layman is that the Economic Dreamboat that the Administration chartered in 1980 is encountering rough waters, that may imply deeper rifts as the year goes on. Of course those waters have always been choppy. As early as fall 1981, David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, also spoke out about holes in the government's economic policy, saying the Administration was hard pressed to translate economic figures into economic reality. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," Stockman told Washington Post reporter Williams Greider in Greider...
Nonetheless, career veterans at the Interior Department, as well as many Watt-appointed loyalists, look forward to having a boss who has the President's ear. In any bureaucratic battles, notably those with Budget Director David Stockman, the Interior officials expect Clark to emerge on top. "We feel good and secure that he's so close to Reagan," says one Interior aide...
...exposure limit for the estimated 57,000 who risk breathing EDB on the job. Scientists at OSHA have concluded that the current standard is 200 times too high to protect workers from the chemical, one of the most dangerous the agency says it has ever regulated. But then David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, asked OSHA to withdraw its new standard, whose cost to U.S. industry is estimated to be $30 million. OMB asked for more time to study the economic impact of the rule...
...during the Ford Administration, he learned how to find his way through the thick forest of figures in the budget. After President Ford lost the 1976 election, Penner joined the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research organization in Washington, and became a leading expert on tax policy. Says David Stockman, the Reagan Administration's Budget Director: "Penner is the best available person for the job at CBO. He's experienced, knowledgeable and technically sound...