“She was the decathlete of public policy,” said Robert Reischauer, an economist who helped Dr. Rivlin set up the Congressional Budget Office in 1975 and later headed the agency. “He took on a really thankless job in 1995,” Dr. Rivlin later told The Washington Post. “It made the Carter Administration unhappy,” Dr. Rivlin told the New York Times in 1982. During her years at the CBO, Dr. Rivlin joined a group of high-powered women who took trips and met regularly to discuss policy. In a 1994 Post profile, Dr. Rivlin was criticized as having a political blind spot.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2019 18:55 UTC