Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloom's lame defense: he had assumed that whatever he knew about Lance's banking background was also known to Carter staffers who were handling Lance's nomination and supposed they had passed such information to the Ribicoff committee. Yet Bloom had, in fact, warmly endorsed Lance in a letter to that committee and in the classified FBI report. He noted only briefly that the comptroller's office had found some problems at the Calhoun bank?a reference Bloom claimed should have been taken as a "red flag." He certainly did; he kept documents related to those problems locked...
Like Carter, Lance came from a modest but not penurious background. He spent his early years in the small north Georgia town of Young Harris (pop. 310), where his father was president of a tiny Methodist college. Lance went to school in a four-room building. "Everybody liked him, even though his father was the president of the college " recalls Georgia's Lieut. Governor Zell Miller, who shared a double desk with Lance and has remained a good friend ever since. "It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class...
...women's theatre, however, and the less impressive men fill half the cast and almost half the script. The fault lies mainly with the script, for the male parts are mostly restricted to humorous numbers which belittle but do not develop character. The men fade into the background, unable to fit the roles of strength and love the women desire for them...
...fighting. But the game was not over, even after the purge. And it is still going on now, not only in the posh executive offices and conference rooms, but down in Washington, where it is played to the accompaniment of country music, overdrafts and soft Georgia drawls in the background. After all, as Coolidge said, the business of America is business, so it's no surprise to see the game go on and on. We can only hope it is played by the rules...
...planned to go into public administration all the time," but chose Harvard Business School over the Kennedy School because "the Kennedy School would tell me what things should be but not how they should be done." Even though he thinks the Business School still offers a superior public management background, Rudman says, "I am amazed to what extent the Kennedy School has changed over the past five years...