Eminentoes/Experienced Conservatives for Bush

...It is time to put SDI in the hands of a highly qualified civilian who is dedicated to its success...

...Radical-chic relics have fled to redoubts in the media, the universities, popular culture, and the federal government...

...In addition to hundreds of specific policy recommendations, it includes chapters on personnel management, budget-making, congressional relations and coalition-building—the pragmatic tools of national policymakers...

...People such as John Lehman, the former secretary of the Navy whose yeoman efforts restored America's sea power...

...military strength, and turning Communist advances of the seventies into the democratic advances of the eighties...

...If there has been anything comparable coming from the left since the New Left was laughed into oblivion in the mid-seventies, it has escaped my attention...

...If that attitude governs the rest of his appointments, he will have a chance to translate the ideological revolution of the seventies and eighties into the policy revolution of the nineties...

...Senate in Maryland, Linda Chavez and Alan Keyes, also have the rare mix of eloquence, savvy, and toughness needed in Washington...

...If they're ignored, they may head back to Pocatello, and forever abandon the nation's capital to its entrenched liberal incompetents...

...and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose do28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1989 quence and passion in the face of vicious opposition from Congress's "Blame America First Club" helped keep democratic capitalism and human rights on the march in the Third World—all have been high-impact and high-profile players in furthering the Reagan agenda, and personify the fusion of expertise, eloquence, savvy, and philosophical commitment needed if conservatives are to revolutionize public policy as they have public opinion...

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...Baker could do a lot to calm the concerns of conservatives by appointing a few rising young conservatives to key positions...

...In picking Dan Quayle, at 41 one of the Senate's staunchest conservatives, Bush said he was "reaching out to a new generation...

...Ambassador Henry Cooper comes to mind...

...For instance, he has been a key player in the President-elect's proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate...

...George Bush MANDATE FOR LEADERSHIP III: Policy Strategies for the 1990s is a sequel to the 1981 Washington Post bestseller that National Review called "an owner's manual for the Federal Government" and its successor report described by USA Today as a...

...Will the President-elect dance with the conservatives who brought him to the Inaugural Ball...

...we `Heritage `Foundation "The great failure of welfare-state liberalism and the contemporary neoisolationism of the left is that they compound our problems...

...For the long haul, most important of all are the 25-to-35-year-olds of conservatism's "Third Generation'!—Dinesh D'Souza and Josh Gilder, for example—many of whom arrived in Washington with Ronald Reagan...

...The time is ripe for George Bush to empower a generation of young to middle-age conservatives in Washington...

...He would be a splendid addition to the Cabinet as the special trade representative...

...Williams could serve ably with the President-elect's able economic adviserduring the campaign, Michael Boskin, on Bush's Council of Economic Advisers...

...Robert Woodson, president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, has led the way in demonstrating that the only good thing about public housing is that it can be sold to tenants, as was done so successfully in the case of the KenilworthParkside project in Washington, for example...

...As White House chief of staff and Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan, and of course the architect of Bush's bracingly conservative presidential campaign, Baker has shown he is well equipped to make State more responsive to the will of the President—and hence the electorate...

...Both Bennett and his young chief of staff, William Kristol, range ably over the whole field of domestic policy...

...Shortly before the election Baker told the National Press Club that among the distinctions the campaign clarified was that Bush "is more comfortable with the notion of using American military force—when absolutely required—to defend American interests...

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...Trade issues, and protectionist pressures in particular, will surely heat up in the nineties, and there are few more knowledgeable or articulate spokesmenfor the free-trade policies on which the President-elect campaigned than the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Dan Oliver...

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...They have the force and flair needed to extend what he began into the twenty-first century...

...The economist Walter Williams has been exposing liberal piffle in books and columns for several years...

...rr o be sure, some of my conserva-tive brethren sometimes act as if presidential appointments should resemble the ordination of priests, with tainted "pragmatists" purged from the ranks of the pure...

...But that's hardly an argument against Baker...

...Certainly a major stride in that direction was the selection of Edwin Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation...

...The ambitious 953-page, 37-chapter policy manual, published by University Press of America, is a bold blueprint for meeting the challenges of the post-Reagan era and should be must reading for the new administration and members of the 101st Congress...

...another hard-charging champion of conservatism, 49-year-old John Sununu, as chief of staff...

...Two recently unsuccessful young candidates for the U.S...

...To them, serving in the federal government is a pain justified only by the very ideological commitment that antagonizes the establishment...

...Chavez stepped down as director of public liaison at the White House in 1986 to run for the Senate...

...And there are few stauncher proponents of market solutions to government-created problems than Richard Rahn, chief economist of the U.S...

...Richard Perle, the former assistant secretary of defense whose "zero option" concept makes him, in effect, the grandfather of the treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces the Reagan Administration signed with the Soviet Union...

...Now an assistant secretary of commerce, he is a natural to fill one of the key assistant secretary positions at State...

...Meeting the Challenges of the Post-Reagan Era "I can say that for my own purpose, I often rely on The Heritage Foundation to provide the kind of quality research and analysis one finds in few other places...

...Unless the Department of Housing and Urban Development is steered in this direction, it will continue to create far more problems than solutions...

...The selection of James Baker as Secretary of State, for example, has made some conservatives nervous...

...If Bush means what he said about going ahead with Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, he must save it from the budgeteers at the Pentagon who worry that strategic defenses will draw money away from their preferred weapons...

...Since the New Deal, Washington has been the headquarters of the world's biggest welfare state—not exactly a natural stomping ground for champions of limited government and free markets...

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...Only by enlisting the passion and ideas of such people can the Bush Administration transform America in the 1990s...

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...There are better things to lose sleep over than the fear that Jim Baker will return us to the peace-through-niceness hooey of the seventies, however wedded to that hooey State itself remains...

...battle cry for recasting U.S...

...The Reagan era has bred a new generation of competent ideologues, and the depth and breadth of the conservative revolution will depend on whether their influence rises during the Bush years...

...Mandate is intended to solve problems, within a framework that looks to government as a last resort, and sees America as a force for good in the world...

...Mandate III calls on the expertise of some 400 scholars, legislative specialists, and former government officials—doers, not just thinkers...

...Some conservatives are understandably uneasy, and for reasons that go beyond their well-known fear that they could be ignored in favor of Nixon-Ford-style Republicans...

...Most conservatives are disdainful of the federal bureaucracy, congressional inquisitions, and (by their standards) low salaries...

...The left has done little over the last twenty years but reduce Hubert Humphrey's politics of joy to the politics of gloom...

...The State Department, true enough, has been the chief roadblock to implementing Reagan's foreign policy...

...Nonetheless, the last eight years have shown that conservatives can not only analyze policy but change it...

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...That may be apt, say, for political science departments bent on knowing which Marxist profs have been orthodox enough to deserve tenure, but it's suicidal nonsense in Washington...

...A s for domestic policy, Bush's not surprising selection of Nicholas Brady as treasury secretary offers reason to believe there will be more than one set of lips promising "no new taxes" in the new administration...

...ambassador to the Defense and Space Talks in Geneva and knows better than anyone else how important SDI is in getting Moscow to negotiate on our terms rather than theirs...

...Government in a conservative image...

...And he is less willing to cede American leadership in world affairs to multinational institutions...

...Both earned their spurs where conservatives must fight just to survive, let alone flourish, as they did: Keyes at the United Nations, Chavez at the U.S...

...Brady's laudable inclination, in fact, is to cut old taxes...

...For Bush, there is a new generation to reach out to...

...A scientist and former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force, Cooper is now U.S...

...Phillip Hughes, for example, is a former assistant to Vice President Bush, a member of the National Security Council staff, and deputy assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs...

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...You advance in the Foreign Service not by rocking boats or offending foreign governments, but by charmingly accommodating the status quo, which is why the White House, not the State Department, must control foreign policy, with the President relying on a strong national security adviser...

...In the last fifteen years, conservatives have generated virtually all the new ideas to be found in the political arenas of both America and Europe...

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...He is one of many black conservatives who have argued with force and courage that liberalism is the cause of, not the solution to, the problems of the black underclass...

...Given his desire to be the "education President," it's hard to imagine that the President-elect would overlook former Education Secretary William Bennett, whose wit and incisiveness cut through the cant and mush that kept America's educational problems from being addressed realistically...

...But it's clear that by calling on the best and brightest that contemporary conservatism has to offer, George Bush has a golden opportunity to broaden and deepen the conservative intellectual revolution that has been the wellspring for record-long economic expansion, restoring U.S...