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House Democrats trying to map a strategy against Reagan’s budget program are not (repeat not) pleased with Speaker Tip O’Neill these days. In wide-ranging Washington Post interview, Tip boasted he was one of the “big spenders of all time.” “There’s no question about that. I remember one day putting $160 million in the budget for breast cancer because Mary Lasker came down to see me. … I remember putting $18 million in for knock knees in children. I used to be able to sneak ’em in without anyone knowing about ’em. But it’s a new ball game now.” . . . House Majority Leader Jim Wright (Tex.), with a rambunctious bunch of Democratic conservatives on his hands led by fellow Texan Phil Gramm, fears the Democratic counter-budget may lose in the Democratically controlled House if “we lose 26 [Democratic] votes and the Republicans march lockstep, like robots, against us.” For his part, Gramm is savoring his new strength. “Suddenly,” he says, “our discussion group is firing real bullets.” . . . Also pleased, Republicans back in Massachusetts who think this may be the year to take out Tip O’Neill. . . . For the record, the only Republican to vote against the budget in the Senate was Lowell Weicker of Conn. . . . According to Evans & Novak, one reason the Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee messed up is that two of the key staff economists hired by Chairman Pete Domenici (Gail Fosler and Preston Miller) are anti-supply-siders. . . . One of David Stockman’s budget-cutting charges—his proposed slashes in the budgets of Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe— has been turned aside by Richard Pipes, who reportedly went right to the top to make his case.

George Wallace agrees with Jerry Ford that gun control isn’t the answer to attempted assassinations. “If a person will not obey a law against shooting Presidents, would he obey a law against handguns?” . . . Stuart Knight, head of the Secret Service, says his resources are stretched thin, having to provide 24-hour, 365-day-a-year protection to twenty people, including former Presidents and their wives, former Vice President and Mrs. Mondale, and Amy—until she’s 16. “Siberia” post is Independence, Mo., home of the bedridden 96-year-old Bess Truman (except for agents getting graduate degrees). . . . One victim of intensified security measures, Majority Leader Howard Baker’s U.S. Senate 1—Tenn. plates. . . . Losing battle: The Secret Service computer has yet to find an agent able to run twenty miles, while remaining alert and on the job, to accompany Agriculture Secretary John Block in the Boston Marathon.

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House Democrats trying to map a strategy against Reagan’s budget program are not (repeat not) pleased with Speaker Tip O’Neill these days. In wide-ranging Washington Post interview, Tip boasted he was one of the “big spenders of all time.” “There’s no question about that. I remember one day putting $160 million in the budget for breast cancer because Mary Lasker came down to see me. … I remember putting $18 million in for knock knees in children. I used to be able to sneak ’em in without anyone knowing about ’em. But it’s a new ball game now.” . . . House Majority Leader Jim Wright (Tex.), with a rambunctious bunch of Democratic conservatives on his hands led by fellow Texan Phil Gramm, fears the Democratic counter-budget may lose in the Democratically controlled House if “we lose 26 [Democratic] votes and the Republicans march lockstep, like robots, against us.” For his part, Gramm is savoring his new strength. “Suddenly,” he says, “our discussion group is firing real bullets.” . . . Also pleased, Republicans back in Massachusetts who think this may be the year to take out Tip O’Neill. . . . For the record, the only Republican to vote against the budget in the Senate was Lowell Weicker of Conn. . . . According to Evans & Novak, one reason the Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee messed up is that two of the key staff economists hired by Chairman Pete Domenici (Gail Fosler and Preston Miller) are anti-supply-siders. . . . One of David Stockman’s budget-cutting charges—his proposed slashes in the budgets of Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe— has been turned aside by Richard Pipes, who reportedly went right to the top to make his case.

George Wallace agrees with Jerry Ford that gun control isn’t the answer to attempted assassinations. “If a person will not obey a law against shooting Presidents, would he obey a law against handguns?” . . . Stuart Knight, head of the Secret Service, says his resources are stretched thin, having to provide 24-hour, 365-day-a-year protection to twenty people, including former Presidents and their wives, former Vice President and Mrs. Mondale, and Amy—until she’s 16. “Siberia” post is Independence, Mo., home of the bedridden 96-year-old Bess Truman (except for agents getting graduate degrees). . . . One victim of intensified security measures, Majority Leader Howard Baker’s U.S. Senate 1—Tenn. plates. . . . Losing battle: The Secret Service computer has yet to find an agent able to run twenty miles, while remaining alert and on the job, to accompany Agriculture Secretary John Block in the Boston Marathon.