Word: sununu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still defensive about any departure from Reaganite thinking, Bush and his aides deny that the government is meddling in the marketplace. Explained departing White House chief of staff John Sununu: "I don't know what to call it. But there are ways of getting federal support into systems in an efficient way in which financial and technological competitiveness are not stifled." Another Administration official was more direct: "Don't call it 'industrial policy,' " he pleaded. "Call it 'George Bush's Incredibly Forward-Looking Applied Research-and-Development Initiatives...
...batting away several internal proposals to put federal money on the line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief economic adviser Michael Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman, the White House argued that market forces, rather than government, could best determine which technologies made it from the lab to the shopping mall...
...dear John Sununu, our heartiest laugh...
...With Sununu out of the way, the balance may shift toward the Administration's "do something big" faction, which includes Vice President Dan Quayle, Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp. In an appearance before the House Ways and Means - Committee last week, Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman suggested that Bush would be willing to break the budget agreement to give the economy a shot in the arm by lowering taxes for the middle class. But when the hearings resumed after a luncheon break, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, leader of the Adminstration...
...Sununu Gets the Boot...