Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working in any hotel, but if the new Attorney General were, it seems woefully clear that it would be the type of establishment that only let rooms to people with the right grandparents. When Griffin Bell was sworn in last month, he made a symbolic gesture by reopening the front doors to the Justice Building, doors that had been sealed shut since the Vietnam War protests during the Nixon administration. Unlike the doors to Bell's private all-white and all-made Atlanta clubs, those portals will be open to all Americans...
...Office of Management and Budget, urged reporters to call him at home if they had questions. Phil took up his offer, found that Lance answered his own phone, and was invited to the Lances' home the next day. A few weeks earlier, Hays Gorey got Griffin Bell's number from the Atlanta directory and had a long, friendly telephone chat with the Attorney General-designate...
...Carter spirit quickly spread through the Administration. At the Justice Department, Attorney General Griffin Bell unlocked the massive steel doors of the main entrance for the first time since the antiwar demonstrations during the Nixon Administration. Carter explained that they had been locked "because of a chasm that developed between our Government and many of our people" and had become "a symbolic separation of both disaffected and disadvantaged people from the core of justice...
...together in the campaign. The early influence centers among the Cabinet and Cabinet-level officeholders are hard to pick. Introducing his Cabinet at the East Room ceremony, Carter praised Schlesinger lavishly, saying that they had formed "an almost instant personal friendship." The treatment left Schlesinger glowing. But Attorney General Bell and Director of Management and Budget Bert Lance are old Georgia comrades of Carter's. The President has also shown a particularly high regard in the past for Vance, Brown, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze...