WHO'S WHO in the Administration
WHO'S WHO in the Administration Some stories are too good to die, and the speculation on who served as Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's Watergate "Deep Throat" continues 13 years later....
...Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal explains that Stockman's experience in Congress prevented him from falling into the trap of assuming that his job was done when he sent the White House budget up to the Hill...
...Wright is the person responsible for OMB's emphasis on weighing the dollar value of human life when regulating industry...
...Moreover, Stockman reportedly dislikes Wright personally...
...INTERIOR Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation—Robert A. Olson will become vice president of Resources Management International, Inc...
...HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration—Robert Graham has left to become vice president of the Academy of Family Physicians in Kansas City, Missouri...
...He brought more congressional experience to the budget post than any director since the 1930s...
...Mix it all together and see if it doesn't make sense...
...Working with a team of his former Hill staff members, Stockman quickly reoriented OMB's purpose from merely preparing the president's financial plan to shaping a piece of legislation likely to win congressional approval...
...Out COMMERCE Undersecretary for International Trade—Lionel H. Olmer will join a Washington-based law firm...
...And finally, the loss of 264 Marines in Beirut because they were forced to defend a highly vulnerable position and were restricted from fighting back a variety of attackers...
...LABOR Chief of Staff—Dennis F. Whitfield has been a United States Trade Representative staff member...
...They were...
...See a pattern...
...STATE Ambassador to Austria—Helene Von Damm has resigned...
...Then he cut the deals necessary to win that approval...
...Next, the failed helicopter rescue of the American hostages from Iran, bungled by Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and David Aaron because, lacking any military sophistication, they tried to run the operation from the White House...
...Special Assistant to the President—James E. Kuhn has been in the Presidential Advance Office...
...The blame for that one falls on Robert McFarlane for trying to run the operation, without adequate information, from the White House...
...Assistant Secretary for Policy—Michael Baroody has been director of public affairs for the White House...
...In WHITE HOUSE Deputy Assistant to the President—Carlton E. Turner has been a White House adviser on drug abuse policy since 1981...
...Bruce Smart, Jr...
...Given Stockman's firm grasp of the helm at OMB, it remains a mystery why he doesn't get rid of Deputy Director Joseph Wright Jr...
...LABOR Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health Administration—Robert A. Rowland has resigned...
...Why doesn't the deputy get the heave-ho...
...Before joining the Reagan administration, Stockman had spent four years as a Republican House member and before that had worked on the Hill since 1970...
...David Stockman has received wide acclaim for his political successes on Capitol Hill, but few have understood the profoundly different approach he has taken in running the Office of Management and Budget...
...Old debts repaid...
...Undersecretary for Domestic Finance—George D. Gould is a Wall Street banker...
...Practice makes perfect...
...Finally, check and see whether Gergen and Woodward were at Yale together...
...Then think of which two Nixon staff men have received unfailingly uncritical coverage from The Washington Post, which has been so justly unkind to many other Nixon veterans...
...COMMERCE Undersecretary for International Trade—S...
...And the real locus of results is what Congress does with what the president is proposing, not just what the president is proposing...
...Results matter," Rauch quotes one member of Stockman's staff as saying...
...Here's the latest from our sources in intelligence circles: a two-man team of Fred Fielding and David Gergen...
...Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs—Fred McClure has been associate deputy attorney general in charge of political appointments...
...In ascending order: The Mayaguez recapture, which resulted in 41 deaths because Gerald Ford tried to run the operation from the White House...
...We've pointed out how ghoulish this cost-benefit analysis gets in areas such as asbestos clean-up ("Tilting at Windmills," May...
...First, think of the two biggest leakers from the first four years of the Reagan administration...
...For the books, which are the three worst postVietnam military planning disasters, according to people in the national security business who ought to know...
...TREASURY General Counsel to the Secretary—Robert M. Kimmitt has been deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs...
Vol. 17 • July 1985 • No. 6
