By David Stockman
As Director of the place of work of administration and funds within the early Eighties, David Stockman used to be a prime architect of the Reagan Revolution—a daring plan to chop taxes and decrease the scope and value of presidency. The Triumph of Politics was once Stockman’s frontline record of the miscalculations, manipulations, and political intrigues that resulted in its failure. a huge publishing occasion and New York Times bestseller in its day, The Triumph of Politics continues to be startling proper to the behavior of Washington politics this present day.
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24 A COS Sub-Committee (hereinafter the ‘Relationship Committee’), was appointed on the 17 October 1871 to consider the relationship between the Council and the ‘present state of the various Committees’. 25 The Relationship Committee consisted of Lord Lichfield, Willis Bund, Hornsby Wright and the Secretaries with ‘the advantage’ of Sir Charles Trevelyan’s and Col Freemantle’s assistance for their later meetings. The COS Council could already detect uncomfortable similarities between themselves and the Poor Law authorities regarding the identical problem of combining the ‘principle of selfgovernment and self-support’ with the amount of centralization and mutual assistance needed to create an essential unity of purpose.
It described ‘the main object of the Society’ as being the improvement of the condition of the poor. This, it was said, would be achieved by; ‘(1) bringing about cooperation between the Charities and the Poor Law, and amongst the Charities; (2) securing due investigation and fitting action in all cases; and (3) repressing mendicity’. The Charity Organization Society was described as consisting of a Federation of Committees within the metropolis. It was anticipated by the COS that each would be aligned functionally with the nearby Board of Guardians responsible for a local Poor Law union.
MP, who was ‘perfectly in accord’ with COS principles, explained that before being converted to charity organization he had found it hard to believe in the ‘unwisdom’ of giving money in the streets. 11 The COS District Committee was intended to be the local decisionmaking forum. Although keen to attract clerics to their colours, the COS studiously avoided being associated with any particular religious denomination. 12 Each DC had a Chairman, at least one Honorary Secretary and an Honorary Treasurer.