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...proposal was a textbook case of multiple advocacy. With Bush's campaign promise to reduce acid rain and toxic waste as guidance, Porter assembled five Administration officials: Energy Secretary James Watkins, EPA Administrator William Reilly, Assistant EPA Administrator William Rosenberg, Associate Budget Director Robert Grady and White House Counsel Boyden Gray. They met 16 times during the spring, and on other occasions with lawmakers, industry officials and environmentalists. Gradually they fashioned a package they thought all parties could support...
...plan was presented to Cabinet officers whose departments would be affected. This second group narrowed down the options. The Cabinet postponed one meeting with Bush after the EPA's Reilly, in a move supported by Boyden Gray, argued for an idealistic plan that would have required half the cars in the nation's 20 largest cities to be powered by alternative fuels by the year 2000. Budget Director Richard Darman and Economic Adviser Michael Boskin worked for weeks to come up with the scaled-down version that eventually went to the President. Bush never saw the EPA's 50% proposal...
...ethics President, it has been a rough 100 days. Your first nominee for Secretary of Defense, John G. Tower, crashed and burned on the character issue. Ethics czar C. Boyden Gray '64 was lambasted for the appearance of impropriety...
Still, ad hoc decisions can lead to posthaste confusion, as quickly became apparent on Capitol Hill. When the Tower nomination appeared to be doomed, White House counsel Boyden Gray, a longtime Bush favorite who often acts independently of others on the staff, pressed for postponement of a vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee. But at the same time, White House lobbyists were pressing for an early vote...
Legal and Ethical Are Not the Same Thing. By seeking to codify ethical conduct, the Government has inadvertently encouraged behavior that borders on what is legally permissible. Consider C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel. While serving as an aide to then Vice President Bush, Gray moonlighted as chairman of a family-owned communications firm, which paid him as much as $50,000 a year. White House officials are formally barred from such outside employment, but not the Vice President's staff. Even when appointed White House ethics czar, Gray apparently planned to continue this cozy arrangement until...