Allen and Stockman struggle to hang on to their jobs
"This is not an Administration that is unraveling." So insisted White House Communications Director David Gergen last week, trying to dispel a sprouting impression in Washington that what he was denying might well be true. But if not unraveled, the White House was at least beleaguered. Just as the Administration was stamping out the flames from Budget Director David Stockman's disparaging comments on Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly, it found itself plagued by a scandal of much greater dimensions. The problem seemed at first to be a penny-ante one: National Security...
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