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...Pentagon legend. On one of his first days as Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, 63, arrived at his desk to find a report giving the reasons for a single budget item; it was 2,916 pages long. Weinberger hit the roof, to the extent that his easygoing temper can fly. He called for an all-out war on the stultifying proliferation of paper and procedures throughout the department. As a senior official put it, the bureaucratic problem of putting together a budget had become so imposing that "the numbers were driving the policy. We set out to reverse that...
...demeaning" press speculation about a rivalry between the two. In fact, the pair clashed openly only once-in May, when Stockman made a statement that seemed to contradict Regan's no-compromise stance on the President's tax cuts. Notorious at Merrill Lynch for his explosive Irish temper, Regan retaliated. With White House approval, he called in several reporters and told them: "This is where you'll hear about Administration tax thinking. If you hear something different from someone else, then it's wrong...
Pockets of resistance, notably Mansfield, remained opposed to the proposal. "Any attempt to introduce any other factor" besides merit into tenure decisions. Mansfield says, "will quickly take us into trouble. Tenure decisions are always hard--the temptation to temper justice with charity is always there and must be fought against constantly." Considerations like potential contribution to the University community should not affect the decisions, be argues, saying that the use of such criteria "would be like choosing the Boston Celties for what they can contribute to race relations in Boston...
Last February in an open letter on issues of race, Bok reaffirmed the University's commitment to affirmative action and although the content of his argument remained essentially the same, the tone and temper of his remarks had changed. After a lengthy discussion of the small pool of qualified minority applicants. Bok concluded that "we face a difficult task in trying to realize the advantages of adding talented scholars to our faculties without breaking faith with our overiding commitment to the highest attainable standards of learning and scholarship." Instead of calling for "special efforts" he wrote "we must...
...attention and inspire cooperation. The 100th-day ritual is not without some logic. It is a reasonable time to take stock of the start, but it is an uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn the Great Society, Richard Nixon three years to engineer the opening to China...