Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True Believers mil make noise and policy in sub-Cabinet posts...
...boss bluntly. Those who had toiled in the fields, the True Believers who had dreamed for more than a decade of a Reagan presidency, were being left out in. the cold. The Cabinet was dominated by pragmatists and retreads from past Republican Administrations, rather than the ideologically pure. The sub-Cabinet was showing dangerous signs of following suit. Something had to be done quickly, he warned, to mollify Reagan's hard-core following of right-wing ideologues...
Indeed, protests from the New Right had begun as soon as Reagan gave top Cabinet jobs to such mainstream Republicans as Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Then these men brought pragmatic moderates into the sub-Cabinet: Lawrence Eagleburger at the State Department and Frank Carlucci at Defense. Conservative Senators like Jesse Helms turned cantankerous, and the Conservative Digest publicly warned Reagan, "Your mandate for change is in danger of being subverted...
Nofziger, who is ensconced in Richard Nixon's old Executive Office Building hideaway as Reagan's assistant for political affairs, has apparently carried the day. The puckish former press secretary has been given the power of "political clearance" over all sub-Cabinet jobs and was ceded nearly total control over some 1,500 lower-level political appointments. Says a presidential aide: "At the staff meetings every day, Nofziger says: "We've got to clean out the Democrats and get our own people taken care...
...recently appointed sub-Cabinet officers will be on the cutting edge of the change Reagan has promised for the Federal Government. Their fervent beliefs are a radical departure from the policies of past Administrations, Democratic or Republican. Says one moderate White House aide: "The revolution is happening and nobody is noticing." Soon, however, people will undoubtedly take notice, because these new appointees will be at the center of some of the most heated controversies in the Administration. Among the newly installed Reaganites...