Word: shultz
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George P. Shultz, but he was thought to be too pro-Arab. The guessing game went on. Some other prospective appointments...
...only person in town not dying of curiosity to see the list was Reagan, who said he felt his advisers should be able to present their views to him back in California when they all sat down to address the Cabinet staffing. In the sweepstakes, George Shultz, a former Secretary of Labor and of the Treasury for Nixon and an early favorite for the State Department was believed to be fading: some Reaganites feel he is too sympathetic to the Arab cause, and he is opposed by organized labor and right-wing conservatives. Along with Weinberger, one leading candidate being...
Democratic Senator Henry Jackson's acceptance of a post on Reagan's military advisory panel strengthens his chances of becoming Secretary of Defense; that would give the Cabinet a bi-partisan aura. The leading candidates for Secretary of State, if Shultz does not get the job, are now William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Alexander Haig, former Nixon chief of staff. Thomas Sowell, a black conservative economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, may enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor or Education...
...about the future of the SALT II treaty, which it considers the cornerstone of détente, the NATO nations believe that Reagan will engineer a steadier and more forceful foreign policy than Carter. The West Germans are encouraged by the fact that Reagan's advisers include George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, all men they admire. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt never tried to hide his scorn for Carter's vacillating and moralizing approach to international issues. Says one Schmidt aide: "Thank God the days of the Washington zigzag are over...
Fiscal conservatives like Reagan Advisers Alan Greenspan, the Ford Administration's chief economic adviser, and George Shultz, who was Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary, (986.35 dispute the Simon scenario. They note that the 1981 budget has a deficit of at least $50 billion already locked in. The addition of $10 billion to $20 billion in defense spending increases pledged by Reagan plus the planned tax cut would put the budget $100 billion in the red. Says Lora Collins, a Conference Board economist: "Reagan's growth policy runs a real risk of overstimulating, while no one knows...