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...wasn't Stockman fired? Because if you have the books juggled, but don't understand the numbers, you better hang on to the juggler...
...impotence of the domestic policy group that enabled Stockman to acquire enormous influence over all domestic decisions?and to keep his job. Stockman's publicly expressed skepticism in the Atlantic Monthly about the economic program he had done so much to shape and sell to Congress would have caused him to be summarily fired for disloyalty from many a past Administration. Indeed, some of Reagan's aides wanted the President to bounce Stockman, but there was simply nobody to take his place. Says a senior Reagan adviser: "As I sat there at those meetings and they were talking about Stockman...
...before. Meese asserted that some of the grants that local leaders wanted to protect are worthwhile and other items in the budget should be cut first. "We need some priorities here," he said. The others nodded; it was obvious that Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman would be hearing from the White House soon...
...thing, there is reason to doubt that Reagan and his inner circle are hearing all the policy views they should. At least five Cabinet members early last summer feared that budget deficits would rise far beyond the optimistic projections that Stockman was presenting. (Ironically, so did Stockman, but at that point he was telling only the Atlantic Monthly.) The five were too afraid of being intimidated by Stockman to speak up in Cabinet meetings. Instead, they formed a rump group that met three times in July to voice their complaints to selected presidential aides. They never did get through...
...troika cannot always keep an eye on everything, and when it lets an issue slip by, the result can be chaos. Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, charged with developing a program to keep Social Security solvent, last May produced with Stockman's help a proposal to reduce sharply the future growth of pensions for people who retire at age 62. It was rushed to the White House on a weekend so that it could be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Monday morning, and an Administration position could then be presented at congressional hearings on Social Security. Meese...