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After observing administrators like Richard Allen, Anne Burford, Rita Lavelle, James Watt, Edward Meese and now William Clark, I am convinced that U.S. affairs are being directed by a group of incompetents...
Interior Secretary James Watt, who once headed a private Colorado group fighting federal restrictions on oil exploration in the West, is only the best known of Reagan's "fox in the chicken coop" administrators. Before he was named head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Thome Auchter served as spokesman for a construction company owned by his family that had been cited 48 times by OSHA for safety violations. Two lobbies that have fought hard against meat inspections now have former executives high in the Agriculture Department: Assistant Secretary C.W. McMillan of the National Cattlemen's Association...
...Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves left...
While Ruckelshaus' words seemed aimed at environmentalists, Watt's action was clearly directed at political allies. The asset-management plan has been heavily criticized in the Western states, where many of the federal holdings are situated and where Ronald Reagan enjoys his greatest grass-roots strength. Under the asset-management process, the Administration had put up FOR SALE signs on 2.5 million acres ruled by Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Though none of the acreage is national park land, a number of tracts were used extensively by vacationers, hunters, fishermen, timber and mineral companies and cattle...
...Though Watt vigorously promoted the plan when it was first introduced, his aides insist that he never had much faith in it. "It was a creation of the White House staff," says Watt's chief spokesman, Douglas Baldwin, who also fixed some of the blame on members of the Office of Management and Budget. "They thought you could get rid of the deficit like Mary Poppins, by just wiggling your nose." But the Secretary went along until recently, when, according to Baldwin, he became convinced that the program had become "a political liability to the President. And once...