European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reagans Whiz kid budget King doily Magazine Stichmann by Ann Blackman associated press Ronald Reagan tells the Story himself they were Back in sitting in the president elects Pacific Palisades choosing Cabinet officers for the new it came time to tap a director for the office of management and everyone first Choice for the Job was David a two term Congress Man from southwestern Michigan who had helped rehearse Reagan for the crucial presidential debates by playing Standin for Independent John Anderson and president Jimmy Reagan sat Back in his chair and told his inner Circle of advisers everybody knows that i won the debate against most people concede that i won the debate against Jimmy but what nobody knows is that i lost them both to David stockmans performance so impressed Reagan that he rewarded him with the Job of his dreams some say schemes budget the nations newest and Sud Denly preeminent financial David David everybody who anybody in political Washington is talking about reagans Whiz the premature Logray Young Man whose Bullet like budget Cut proposals Are ricocheting through the terrorizing delighting you see him in a meeting and he seems to vibrate with said Pendleton reagans chief of personnel who helped select he actually he has so much Energy in his mind that his whole body is the youngest person to hold Cabinet rank in 150 As architect of the nations billion Stock Man wants to reshape americas economic he has declared War on Federal pointed his gun at vast numbers of congressional sacred cows and helped convince Reagan that the prescription to the nations economic ills lies in Sharp tax stockmans code he is deep while most of reagans other Cabinet officers Are still putting their staffs Stockman has been shuttling Between the White House and Capitol trying to mobilize support for his dramatic proposals with influential lobbyists and congressional he always does his and he rarely makes said Carroll Campbell yet even stockmans supporters concede that his style is far from that his Workaholic ways show him to be More at ease with statistics than Small he want like the rest of us who get together once in a while for dinner with our Campbell Contin Hes not the kind of Guy youd get to know on Fred who was stockmans congressional press up president Reagan passes Jar of Jelly Beans to nations preeminent financial february 1981 described his old Boss As a shy Man who was uncomfortable at Kaffee Klatsch a politician More interested in policy than his existence is to be totally immersed in the Davis Given a Choice of Reading is Newsweek or the Oil and Gas hed pick the Oil Davis said Stockman usually operated on four to five hours he usually got to the office by 7 left for dinner at 8 and often came Back to read until Hes not the kind of Guy id like to go drinking stockmans steady companion for the list 2m Jennifer takes Issue with those who describe Stock Man As All work and no Hes a very thoughtful said a sales woman for ism who is As charming As Stockman is he just loves to pressure exhilarated he thrives on Blei said Stockman also loves Fine food and that before he took the bomb they dined frequently at one of the capitals most popular and expensive restau she said Stockman took up Tennis a few Summers ago in the summer we play All the and that they often go she says Stockman has Little interest in clothes and when she tried to Spruce him up with a new velvet Blazer and a double breasted Tweed he refused to Wear his political image May be More some say who grew up on a family fruit farm in is an impressionable Man who sways with the political they cite his High school Days of 1964 As student government presi Dent and Captain of the football he worked for Barry Goldwater presidential four years he was a Campus Radical at Michigan state University where he led a summer Long protest against the Vietnam some suspect Stockman enrolled As a graduate student at Harvard divinity school As a Way to avoid being sent to that he campaigned for a Job As Babysitter for the children of the professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan As a Way of ingratiating himself with political inside whatever the he abandoned his studies when congressman John a Friend of offered Stockman a Job in Stockman worked for Anderson for eighteen months and then an Derson appointed him director of the House Republican Stockman held the Job for three he quit in 1975 to run for Anderson wont talk about aides say because Stockman did not support Andersons presidential Anderson feels anything he might say about Stockman would be interpreted As sour but Bob who was Andersons chief Domestic adviser during the presidential says he Walker has severe doubts about stockmans ability to reshape the he has no formal economic Walker theres no question Hes very but he lacks Conion he sees the Fine details but not the big if its a question that can come out of a Stockman can give you an but if youre talking about How the eco non y really you cant put those things into a other critics say that Stockman cant see through the Maze of computer tape to the real people affected by his budget Cut he is the most ambitious person and the most accomplished Technocrat Ever to be named budget said a Veteran Washington but i dont see any degree of humanity in what he its All but to Ronald stockmans strategy makes when the president called Stockman last fall to for Mally offer him the bomb Reagan told the Young Man Ever since the Ive been looking for a Way to get Back at Ive found in offering you the toughest Job in Stockman accepted then he gave his girl Friend a huge the stars and stripes Page 13