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Clearly the decision to fire or keep Allen will have nothing to do with his guilt or innocence. And it won't focus, as some White House staffers have suggested, on his having lost effectiveness. Stockman's indiscretions certainly hampered his effectiveness, but instead of facing special tests, he was...
The "problem," meanwhile, was working at his usual feverish pace last week. Badly shaken and somewhat moody in the days following his "woodshed" session with Reagan two weeks ago, Stockman is now committed to salvaging his credibility-and his job. Ignoring the advice of aides, he is embarking this week...
IN ADDITION to his considerable talents as a budget-cutter, David Stockman seems to have a gift for metaphor as well. By calling Ronald Reagan's supply-side economics program a "Trojan Horse" for the age-old trickle-down theory, he neatly captured its essential dishonesty and unworkability. But since...
An ashen-faced Stockman called a press conference and announced that he had offered the President his resignation but that Reagan had refused it. With uncharacteristic humility, the budget director apologized publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he...
The reason that animal metaphors come to mind at all is that Mr. Stockman seemed to favor them in the Atlantic piece, along with agricultural imagery in general. (His name itself is an agricultural image.) At the news conference, he referred to having grown up on a farm, in order...