Annelise Anderson
Oral History detailed view.
Speaker: Annelise Anderson
Date: December 17, 2002
Description:
Annelise Anderson examines her role in four Republican presidential campaigns, and her service in the Reagan administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She discusses how she came to join the campaigns of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968, and her efforts in Ronald Reagan's 1976 and 1980 campaigns. She comments on her work in the 1980 transition and her decision to join the administration in 1981 as an Associate Director of the OMB. Anderson discusses her role in the OMB and the key issues of her tenure, including the balanced budget amendment proposal, negotiating budgets with agency heads, and her relationship with OMB Director David Stockman. Anderson also devotes a significant section of the interview to discussing Ronald Reagan the individual'is childhood, his early career, and his life in politics.
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