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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...
...dear John Sununu, our heartiest laugh...
Some lawmakers, including Congressmen Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Vin Weber, responded positively to Sununu's appeal. But the chief of staff's many enemies in Washington saw an opportunity to take revenge. Republican leader Robert Dole, who has seethed since Sununu helped Bush win the 1988 New Hampshire primary by suggesting that Dole was a closet advocate of higher taxes, coldly spurned him. Then Dole twisted the knife by describing Sununu's phone call to a television interviewer. Some White House officials and G.O.P. political strategists were miffed that Sununu was trying to end run the President. Bush himself...
...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...