Word: woodshedding
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-- Louis Sullivan, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is called to White House woodshed because he whispered around Capitol Hill that perhaps he might not want the Roe v. Wade abortion decision to be rescinded. This is leaked instantly, contradicting Bush's pro-life stand. Note to newcomers...
"If you love 'em, let 'em know. Stand up and cheer and dance and tell 'em they're terrific," he'll say. "But if you don't like 'em, if you think they deserve to be sent back to the woodshed, you should let 'em know that too."
David Stockman has never been much of a team player. As director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in 1981, he was taken "to the woodshed" by the President for publicly criticizing Reaganomics. Stockman admitted that he cooked the figures in the budgets he sent to Congress...
As the Fed and the economy stand at a turning point, the timing could hardly be better for the appearance of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (Simon & Schuster; 798 pages; $24.95) by William Greider, the national editor of Rolling Stone magazine. Greider, whose 1981...
While Feldstein has infuriated Regan, he has aroused equally intense ire at the White House. Not since Budget Director David Stockman was taken to the woodshed for revealing doubts about Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 has the Administration been so embarrassed, and harassed, by one of its economic...