European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 col comments George will Stockman Learned theory differs from practice nothing since the death of Napoleon has been so pleasing in so Many ways As the fact that an informal auction among publishers has produced the hilarious result of a million contract from Harper Row for David stockmans he deserves the Money As deferred government service has been costing him million a year in salary for and he needs his current occupation House husband pays when i called to congratulate he had just finished the morning feeding of age three Rachels is carrying the family until dad goes Back to work for Salomon that investment banking firm will pay him but in just 12 years Rachel will need an in 18 years she will need College which May then be a if the monster deficits stretching As far As the Eye can see Rachacl fathers words pro Duce proportionate Stockman once like some other Reagan nit a keeper of Karl Marxs in this sense he subscribed to an economic interpretation of he believed that economic calculation rationality rules the reasonable measurements of marginal Utility make the world go Clever policies should cause economic variables to vary in ways certain to alter mass behaviour in predictable ways and enhance the wealth of now Stockman is the beneficiary of an outbreak of economic irrationality among their animal spirits the heat of the the lust to win resembled the bidding for free agent athletes that has afflicted the publishers behaviour reveals something of the social soil in which the publishing houses Are something of the provincialism of Midtown the publishers probably assume his Book will be a vinegary exercise in settling scores and spilling brimful of bitterness and inside manhattans marinating in its Animos takes All disagreements passionately and personal Washington is and the difference is not the lassitude of the difference in a re Flection of this axion about academic politics bitterness is inversely proportional to the an attractive aspect of professional politicians is their emotional Arthur Balfour wrote to a Friend i dined last night with the and Asquith and i had a rather Sharp passage in the House of commons after i Felt a mild awkwardness in replying to a Man in the strength of his own Champagne i did it All the and with considerable stockmans readers will find a similar which reflects his under standing that in contemporary government honest mis William Safire Swid Stockman in do chs oils tic Usta Nib Stockman in he lost for the cd nil takes Are More important than dishonourable his Book will be valuable As a study of intellectual chemistry what happens to ideas in the heat and pressure of the political but it will not be a Page Turner full of steamy inside in washing the inside Story is often less interesting and usually less important than what is done in full Prudential and ethical considerations will com Bine to produce in Stockman a seemly he is 38 and might be i Hope he will be in the Cabinet in the year he will not now want to betray confidences by revealing conversations that occurred when the participants were assuming that there was a memoirist on duty in the what about the Public right to More often than that incantation is less a thought than a substitute for it gives writers an easy conscience about behaviour that for fun and a right to know should be related in some Way to need to and an appetite is not necessarily a the Public does need Good which depends on Candor in private such Candor will be a casualty if frenzied Competition among publishers for Washington memoirs produces an economic Law of history writing As contracts become discretion becomes a drag on the it used to be said that bestsellers were about animals or Medicine or the civil War i was lincolns today stockmans million title should the bomb diet for thin a Long summing up four Long might be How Rosie scenario fell off her Trojan horse when stopped to feed at the Public a Short telling the full Story of the meeting Between Bud get balancing theory and political practice would be oops c Washington Post right Wing needs another Fella like Rockefeller americas right Wing sorely misses Nelson politics with out a villain is like a Lens without a focal and old  was a perfect he was on our the juices of fury rarely flow at the leaders of the oppose conservatives hated Roosevelt and liberals hated but they were except these no right Winger can work up a respectable lather about tip and for years few of us have been Able to turn really purple at the mention of Mondale or Carter or to become a certified villain of left or a pol has to be inside the tent and a Challenge to the True the bolsheviks didst hate the they hated the me she Viks to this radicals see the enemy not As the for whom they have a Yingyang but Reserve their bitterest contempt for the in the same Rockefeller represented the new Dewey Wing of the the closet centrists who beat Robert Taft with a nonpolitical War hero and thereby denied the True believers in the virtue of self Eli Ance the sweetness of ideological Rockefeller played the villain with zest at the 1964 Goldwater where we outcast new yorkers carried his main Stream and for a decade afterwards those of us who turned Nix onite could whip the party into a semblance of Unity by Sug Gesting that the alternative was a Handmaiden of the his departure left a vacuum that has grown to the i Plosive proportions of a Black who is there today to Send a delightful frisson of fear up the spines of the faithful where is the bogeyman who will not let Reagan be Reagan nobody of consequence on the right re fuses to get right with the you still hear whispers that George Bush knows the secret handshake of the Tri late and Bob Dole has been acting suspiciously responsible and making too Many friends in the but neither of these Guys can be accused of conducting an underground Campaign to sell out to Gorbachev and the welfare where does that leave those of us itching for a villain fix Rocky is and Henry the k has been out of Power for nearly a who is left that is to who remains on the left of the threatening its dominance from within Are you ready the designated fall Guy is Secretary of state George from the pulpits of the moral majority to the mail merging software of conservative word is going Forth soft the boy Buddha of is the cause of our Cavern to terrorists and is scheming to make a Doormat out of the american a righting pundit needs a Vil but of George is just not going to organized to be effect has to be remotely related to the truth is that the one Cabinet offi cer who wanted to join with the French in retaliating for terrorist attacks on embassies in Beirut was our Secretary of the French went ahead with their raid on a terrorist Headquarters in the but our Pentagon prevailed on Reagan to flinch As a shiite terrorists have Given France a wide berth and have hit us again and in Public debate on the ethics of Shultz has been urging the application of military might to deter and punish while Secretary Wein Erger and the dovecote in the joint chiefs have been drawing up lists of impossible Ria for popularity and National Unity before using anything that when the Twa passengers who were held hostage the most hawkish voice in the administration was when military targets were selected in Side Nicaragua for retaliation for the murder of our men in Al it was the and not Shults foggy that was the Center of arguments against the Secretary of state has foolishly fallen prey to the foreign services lust for ambassadorial and failed to re Ward those who fought the Good fight against the Stripe pants elite who tried to bring us the Law of the sea that tur Manship hardly rates hamlets cry o damned villain with the  soft sector and with hardliner Shultz so unsatisfying to who is left to blame for coddling terrorists and caving in on social Security cuts Only Ronald but to make him our villain would be to turn us to a Bunch of self hating that Why we miss Nelson c new York times