A look at former US budget chief David Stockman Born Nov. 10, 1946, Fort Hood, Texas. _ EDUCATION: Michigan State University, Harvard Divinity School. _ WIFE: Jennifer, board president of the Guggenheim museum. _ CAREER: House of Representatives from Michigan, 1977-81; U.S. budget director, 1981-85; Blackstone Group, 1988-99; founder of private equity firm Heartland Industrial Partners, 1999; CEO of car-parts maker Collins & Aikman, 2003-05 (indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly misleading investors but charges dropped). _ WHAT HE'S READING NOW: "The Pity of War," by Niall Ferguson. _ FAVORITE MOVIE: "Gallipoli" - "Powerfully dramatizes the folly of wars led by warmongers - in this case, Churchill." _ LAST BOOK WROTE: "The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed" (1986). _ BOOK WRITING NOW: "The Triumph of Crony Capitalism." _ WHAT'S ON HIS DESK: A large paperweight called "On the Brink" by Henry M. Paulson, Jr., the former Treasury secretary. The book is about the government bailouts that Stockman thinks were unnecessary. _ FAVORITE REAGAN MOMENT: "When he filibustered a whole meeting with Tip O'Neill and had him in stitches with off-color Irishman stories." _ FAVORITE QUOTE: John Maynard Keynes on monetary inflation: "By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft." _ ANY OTHER LIBERTARIANS IN YOUR FAMILY: "Perhaps, but we can't agree on the definition."