Arthur Laffer Supply-side economist Laffer first met Cheney in the 1970s, when he drew his famed supply-side curve on a napkin for the Ford White House chief of staff at a bar two blocks from the White House. Now he comes to the West Wing for meetings, offering counsel to the Vice President.
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