>"We in here."
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>Merry Christmas, fellow basket weavers!
in high school, over the PA system
"Hugh Mann please report to the principal's office"
~ turns out later we find this fellow student, is REAL.
>ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR POLITICAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
<>Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. November 1985-March 1987
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'Eli Lilly'
In 1990, Daniels left the Hudson Institute to accept a position at Eli Lilly and Company, the largest corporation headquartered in Indiana at that time.[28]
He was first promoted to President of North American Operations (1993–97) and then to Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Policy (1997–2001).[12][13][26]
During his tenure Lilly pleaded guilty to two criminal misdemeanors, paid more than $2.7 billion in fines and damages, settled more than 32,000 personal injury claims
— and copped to one of the largest state consumer protection cases involving a drug company in U.S. history. [1]
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Daniels managed strategy to deflect attacks on Lilly's Prozac product by a public relations campaign against the drug being waged by the Church of Scientology.
In one interview in 1992, Daniels said of the organization that "it is no church," and that people on Prozac were less likely to become victims of the organization.
The Church of Scientology responded by suing Daniels in a libel suit for $20 million. A judge dismissed the case.[29]
Eli Lilly experienced dramatic growth during Daniels's tenure at the company.
Prozac sales made up 30–40% of Lilly's income during the mid-to-late 1990s, and Lilly doubled its assets to $12.8 billion and doubled its revenue to $10 billion during the same period.
When Daniels later became governor of Indiana, he drew heavily on his former Lilly colleagues to serve as advisers and agency managers.[30]
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<>Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. November 1985-March 1987
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Office of Management and Budget
Daniels with President George W. Bush and other advisers in the Roosevelt Room in 2001
On December 22, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Daniels to serve as the director of the Office of Management and Budget.[33]
and was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 100-0 on January 23, 2001.[34]
In this role he was also a member of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.
During his time as the director of the OMB, Bush referred to him as "the Blade," for his noted acumen at budget cutting.[35]
The $2.13 trillion budget Daniels submitted to Congress in 2001 would have made deep cuts in many agencies to accommodate the tax cuts being made,
but few of the spending cuts were actually approved by Congress.[17]
Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan,
Daniels gave a speech to the National Press Club in which he challenged the view of those who wanted to continue typical spending while the nation was at war.
"The idea of reallocating assets from less important to more important things, especially in a time of genuine emergency, makes common sense and is applied everywhere else in life," he said.[36]
Despite such efforts, during Daniels's 29-month tenure in the position, the projected federal budget surplus of $236 billion ballooned to a $400 billion deficit, due to tax cuts,
the War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Iraq War.[26][37]
Nobel economics Laureate Paul Krugman noted Daniels is "held up as an icon of fiscal responsibility" without having earned it.
Commenting on Daniels leadership he wrote
"what I can't forget is his key role in the squandering of the fiscal surplus Bush inherited. It wasn't just that he supported the Bush tax cuts;
the excuses he made for that irresponsibility were stunningly fraudulent."[38]
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Congress passed legislation authorizing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
Just before the legislation was signed by Bush,
Republican lawmakers inserted language into the bill that authorized protection from liability corporations that manufactured thimerosal,
a controversial vaccine preservative that has been the subject of multiple lawsuits.[39] Eli Lilly was once the largest maker of thimerosal and is a major target of the lawsuits.[40]
Daniels was the budget director at the time of the bill's passing and some[41][42][39] have raised concerns over potential conflicts of interest.
Congress repealed the thimerosal provision following expressions of public displeasure.[41]
Conservative columnist Ross Douthat stated in a column about Daniels's time at OMB that
Daniels "carried water, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, for some of the Bush administration's more egregious budgets."[43]
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But Douthat, while calling Daniels "America's Best Governor," defended Daniels against accusations that Daniels inaccurately assessed the costs of the Iraq war.[44]