The President of the United States looked his chief budget cutter in the eye, saying:
You’re a victim of sabotage by the press. They’re trying to bring you down because of what you’ve helped us accomplish.
As if to erase any doubt that his budget guy was unwanted by the President because of all the negative media attention that had been directed his way, spilling over on to the President himself, the President reassured that “I want you to stay on. I need your help.”
No.
This was not a recent back and forth between President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk. This was back in the early 1980’s, as President Ronald Reagan was making a point of standing up for his Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), young and brilliant former Michigan Congressman David Stockman.
And the tale of the media,…
