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...gloating throughout his speech, though. With the arrival of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, cuts in both arts budgets loom large, along with, in Britain, calls from conservative politicians to move arts patronage back into the private sector. (In this country, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman has daintily halved the NEA's budget.) As British culture becomes more and more commercialized and government resources dwindle, British artists and administrators will closely examine the arts scene in America, to see what happens to a culture overwhelmingly dependent on the private sector--corporate grants, individual contributions and ticket sales...
Allen and Stockman struggle to hang on to their jobs...
...White House Communications Director David Gergen last week, trying to dispel a sprouting impression in Washington that what he was denying might well be true. But if not unraveled, the White House was at least beleaguered. Just as the Administration was stamping out the flames from Budget Director David Stockman's disparaging comments on Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly, it found itself plagued by a scandal of much greater dimensions. The problem seemed at first to be a penny-ante one: National Security Adviser Richard Allen's acceptance of a $1,000 honorarium from a Japanese magazine...
Reagan is furious that his wife's name has been dragged into the controversy. "Nancy is horrified," said one intimate. "It's a bad dream for her." Some staffers are especially nettled since Allen, unlike Stockman, is not considered central to the making of policy; they believe that, even if Allen is cleared, the incident gives them the chance to jettison him on grounds of bad judgment. Said one top official: "Allen presents an opportunity. David presents a problem...
...results of that game--eight percent unemployment, a squeeze on state and local governments, high interest rates--are just now beginning to hit home. Stockman's remarks may have embarassed himself and the president: in that sense, they mark a turning point in the history of an administration. But to the people who have to live with what he's done, Stockman's mea culpas sound as if he's merely trying to rub it in. In that sense, they may well mark a turning point in the way the public perceives not only Ronald Reagan, but politics and politicians...