Who's in control? and Locked in the cabinet

✍ Scribed by Walter Williams

• Book ID: 101297375
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199821)17:2<334::aid-pam13>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

Who's in Control?

and Robert Reich's Locked in the Cabinet offer insider accounts by two top federal officials of their policymaking roles during the last three presidencies. The latter who served as President Bill Clinton's first secretary of labor had close ties both with the president and Hillary Clinton and was a major actor early on. Over time Reich became increasingly isolated in remaining a card-carrying liberal as the president shifted dramatically to the right after the November 1994 midterm election that saw the Republicans gain control of Congress for the first time since the Eisenhower presidency. Darman, in contrast, offers an eyewitness account by one of the central actors over the 12 years of the Reagan and Bush presidencies. In Ronald Reagan's first term Darman became the top aide to Chief of Staff James Baker, the most powerful White House staffer during that period. Darman served as the number two person under a still powerful Baker, the Treasury secretary in Reagan's second term. As George Bush's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, Darman