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THIS IS NOT TO SAY that Allen deserves to hang onto his job. In addition to the Japanese incident, he has often undermined the president's position with his constant bickering with Haig. He also is not as indispensable to the Reagan administration as Haig and Stockman, and thus cannot afford the mistakes they...
...supplanted good judgment." Hatfield's impassioned complaint, amid Senate debate on the budget, was partly right. In a sense, the contest turned on which computer to believe, and Ronald Reagan chose the figures printed out by an electronic brain under the care of his budget boss, David Stockman...
...Office of Management and Budget computer. Its master, Stockman, has admitted changing its programming early this year to avoid a forecast of embarrassingly huge deficits. Indeed OMB last summer hired four college students to supplement its work with calculations done by hand, because, says Spokesman Edwin Dale, "computers are awfully rigid." Nonetheless last week the computer in effect accused the House Appropriations computer of printing out phony figures that underestimated how much would be spent on food stamps and supplemental security income for the disabled. The resolution that came out of the Senate-House conference, said the OMB computer, would...
Budget Boss Stockman punches out the numbers again...
...hardly the dominating figure of past appearances on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was carefully hidden from public view in the office of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Nonetheless, there was David Stockman doing what he does best, hunching over a desk in shirtsleeves to tap out spending estimates on a pocket calculator. His typically virtuoso performance may have saved...