"President Ronald Reagan and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy"
Are we talking about the same person?
From 2005 to 2007 he was on leave from Dartmouth while he served on the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Slaughter joined the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth in 1994 and a member of the Tuck School faculty in 2002. He is a recipient of the university’s John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Slaughter received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from University of Notre Dame in 1990, and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.