Word: subcabinet
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...submitted budget proposals to OMB, which is reducing them further and returning the trimmed versions this week. Then the various agencies will start making their appeals to restore funds that have been lopped off. Carter insists he will back up his budget cutters. At a mid-November meeting of subcabinet officers and other top civil servants, he emphasized that his anti-inflation campaign would require sacrifices "from everyone." Noting that all sorts of interest groups "will make their voices heard," he warned: "You will be tempted to be a spokesman for those you serve. I would like you to avoid...
Although no Harvard faculty members made it into Carter's cabinet, the slow boat to Washington is picking up speed in the subcabinet level appointments. This week, the Carter team looked to Harvard for expertise both in warfare and in medicine...
...century ago, when William Jennings Bryan so strongly disagreed with Woodrow Wilson's hostile policy toward Imperial Germany that he resigned as Secretary of State. While there have been a few low-level resignations on political principle from the Nixon Administration, no one at the Cabinet or subCabinet level has left. The last Cabinet official to leave in protest and say why was onetime Labor Secretary Martin Durkin; in 1953, after less than nine months in office, he resigned because President Eisenhower refused to support his proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley...
...aged squares to go to Washington in public like this and tell them to Get The Hell Out Of Cambodia. Stop The Idiot Bombing, and reaffirm the road being taken in the past to withdraw all troops, is a big deal. Those of us formerly of the Cabinet and subcabinet level are here-by announcing that we are no longer playing the private game. We publicly regard the change in policy as intolerable. All of us will engage in very active political mobilizing for support of candidates against the war. Galbraith's been playing this game for a long time...
...been the one member of the subcabinet who had foreseen disaster in the jail basement," Manchester said, in an article describing his struggle to write and publish The Death of a President, his controversial history of the assassination...