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Stockman's extraordinary admissions to William Greider of the Washington Post--that he had grave doubts about the administration's economic program even as he was publicly advocating it--hurts both Stockman and the President a great deal. And they came at a particularly inopportune time for this suddenly floundering presidency. There has been vicious infighting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Advisor Richard Allen. Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38 can't agree on whether or not NATO plans include a nuclear "warning shot" at the Soviet Union. And the president himself appears...
Ironically titled "The Education of David Stockman," the 24-page Atlantic article by Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor William Greider, 45, was a painstaking, often sympathetic portrait of a tenacious ideologue disillusioned by the hard realities of politics, both inside the Oval Office and on Capitol Hill. Stockman's candidly pessimistic observations were made during 18 interviews between December 1980 and August 1981. Stockman's first reaction to the firestorm of criticism that greeted the Greider story was a flat denial-not of the views he is quoted as expressing, but of Greider's right to quote...
...Greider, a respected 13-year veteran of the Post and a friend of Stockman's for about four years, said he had won Stockman's cooperation by agreeing in advance that the interviews would not be published in the newspaper. Instead, a long magazine story would be produced several months later. Post Managing Editor Howard Simons, who clears all freelance work by his staff, approved the project. Says Greider: "Nobody will talk with such consistency and intimacy for a daily newspaper...
...Post's case, both Greider and Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee say that the background sessions with Stockman helped guide the newspaper's coverage of Reagan's economic program. Says Greider: "If you went back you would see a lot of Post stories reflecting my conversations with Stockman." To bolster this claim, an article in last Friday's Post by Robert G. Kaiser listed four stories that had included information supplied by Stockman. In two of them, it was attributed to him; hi the others, it was attributed to a White House official. Bradlee said the Post...
Once they saw what Stockman was telling Greider, why didn't they assign some economics people to do that story?" Adds Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Greider was walking a pretty thin line. If he were working for me, I would want those quotes, those contexts and Stockman's identity in my newspaper...