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...Bert Lance. Businessmen did not think Carter should have kept Lance as Director of the Office of Management and Budget; some, indeed, regard the President's long defense of Lance as evidence of unreasonable stubbornness. Nonetheless, now that Lance is gone, they feel they have lost their only real friend in high Administration councils. Says General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones: "Bert Lance was one who was quite close to the President, never failed to return a call that was made to him, never failed to grant us an interview, and always was a conduit through which our thinking could...
...confusion is compounded because there is no economic eminence grise in the Carter Administration. Says Blumenthal: "That label never applied to Bert [Lance] or to Charlie [Schultze] or to me, and in my judgment it probably never will. It's easy to convince yourself that you're the only one he's listening to, but that's baloney...
...after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door to door in its early days. Old Friend Bert Lance was there, and the former Budget Director spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom. When one member of the Brigade told Carter that "on the next go round, you can count on every one of us again," a pleased President responded: "I'm not making any announcements about...
...Bert Lance is back in Georgia and no longer a threat to the republic, so it should be possible to discuss more coolly how the press treated him. The press has already delivered its own verdict, conceding only that maybe there were a few excesses on its part (TIME, Sept. 19). But since Lance turned out to be guilty of shoddy banking practices, newshounds were not barking up the wrong tree, were they? Jimmy Carter, who hopes to live in wary peace with the press, has resisted all invitations at news conferences to accuse reporters of having driven Lance...
...putting Bert Lance through the twice-daily gauntlet of shoving reporters, the press might say in its own defense that each newsman was only responding to competitive pressures for a new picture, a new quote. Nothing personal, you understand: we do it to everybody who gets in a jam. But this tumultuous, superficial "reporting," which is about all the public ever sees of reporting, gives all journalism a bad name. And these are matters to keep in mind, even though Lance was right to quit, Carter was wrong in defending him, and it was Lance's own failure...