Word: angelos
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...Knives. Some critics, observing the Georgians' fierce loyalty to their boss, have suggested that Carter could be creating his own imperial presidency; he is surrounded by a palace guard that, despite its relentless informality, is a palace guard nonetheless. That does not seem likely. Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "There is within the Carter White House less jockeying and fewer glinting knives in the back than is usual in a place where power can be determined by how close you sit to the Oval Office. The Carter staff is more relaxed and more approachable than any other White House...
Eventually, the President's aides will gain that missing Capitol experience. Along the way, of course, they could also succumb to a special Washington vice. Says Angelo: "Thus far, the Carter staff has not demonstrated a thirst for power -but power, after all, can be an acquired taste...
...Bonnie Angelo, covering the White House, found the Carter people in their new quarters "as amiable and open as they were in Plains." She was also struck by "the overnight transformation of colleague into source." TIME's Jerrold Schecter has moved from his diplomatic beat to the newly created Administration post of Associate Press Secretary for the National Security Council...
...preparation for the cover, Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, Correspondent Bonnie Angelo and Cloud interviewed the President-elect in his Plains home last week. Carter had been told by Powell three weeks ago that he was TIME's Man of the Year. His response: "Oh really? I hadn't given any consideration to that." At the time, Carter's mind was preoccupied with selection of his Cabinet. Much of his deliberation took place in his study, overlooked by a framed portrait that ran on the cover of TIME...
...reporters assigned to cover the slowly emerging Carter Administration, "there is the excitement of witnessing the first entries on a clean new page of history," says Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. But there is also a good deal of waiting. Before the election the Carter beat was a fairly freewheeling affair, reports Stanley Cloud, who has followed the Georgian for more than a year. "Suddenly," says Correspondent Cloud, who will be assigned to the White House on Jan. 20, "the man the press saw and talked with day after day is virtually no longer visible, let alone accessible." Reporters trying...