Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first primaries barely a year away, Carter has already begun mobilizing for the 1980 election. Democratic Party Treasurer Evan Dobelle, a former Republican mayor who changed parties to back Carter, is the leading candidate to head the President's re-election committee. Jordan, Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss and Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo will likely become the brain trust that plots broad strategy, while Dobelle manages daily campaign chores...
...Atlanta 130, Kansas City...
After a federal grand jury in Atlanta questioned Billy Carter last fall about Banker Bert Lance's tangled financial dealings, the President's brother announced blithely that on several occasions he had taken the Fifth Amendment. The statement inflamed suspicions that Brother Billy might be covering up some unsavory-or even illegal-money dealings between Lance, who resigned as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the fall of 1977 because of his questionable banking practices, and the Carter presidential campaign...
Last week two outside directors of Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia, which was once headed by Lance, issued a 131-page accounting snowing that the bank had loaned the Carters almost $7 million. But the directors reported: "We have seen no evidence that the proceeds of these loans were, at least to the knowledge of anyone at N.B.G., used outside the Carter peanut business...
...White House last week moved quickly to dissociate the President from Brother Billy's banking. Since Jimmy Carter took office, his 62% share of the family business has been in a blind trust managed by Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo. When Kirbo discovered the relaxed management, he quickly moved to straighten out the mess...